22 MRS. A. S. LEWIS^ ON THE GENEALOGIES OF OUR LORD. 



by establishing, as has been done to-day, that the second Gospel 

 pedigree is that of Mary. 



When the angel was foretelling to Mary the birth of the Holy 

 Child, he said, " The Lord God shall give Him the throne of His 

 father David." Now if Joseph, her betrothed, had alone been 

 descended from Da\'id, Mary would have answered, " I am not yet 

 married to Joseph," whereas she did answer simply, " I am an 

 unmarried woman," which plainly implies, if I were married, since 

 I am descended from David, I could infuse my royal blood into a 

 son, but how can I have a royal son while I am a virgin 1 



Again, Joseph was a poor man ; he would not have spent a 

 longer time from his trade at Xazareth than was needful for 

 reporting himself at Bethlehem to the census-taker and for saluting 

 a few friends there ; so when he started Mary must have been very 

 near her time of delivery — say two or three weeks. He surely 

 would not have taken her on that three days' mountainous journey 

 to Bethlehem when she was in that condition, unless she as well as 

 he was " of the house and lineage of David." And this view, as 

 we learn from the paper (p. 17) is strikingly confirmed by a reading 

 in the Sinai tic Syriac Version. 



The Revised Version of i Chron. iii, 17, 18, makes it clear that 

 both Salathiel and Pedaiah were sons of Jeconiah, the name Assir 

 just following Jeconiah's in the Authorized Version being rendered, 

 as it may lawfully be, " captive," and verse 17 being thus brought into 

 the same form as verse 16. Salathiel and the second son Malchiram 

 doubtless both died before having children, Pedaiah then taking 

 Salathiel's place, and one of the other sons mentioned Malchiram's 

 place, in raising up children to their brothers ; and so Zorobabel was 

 later called the son of Salathiel, though he was really (ver. 19) the 

 son of Pedaiah. 



On the other hand, the Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, in Luke's 

 pedigree can hardly be the same as Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, in 

 Matthew's ; for the former stands twenty generations back from 

 Joseph inclusively, while the latter stands only twelve back ; and 

 this difference is out of all proportion to the whole number of 

 generations in the respective pedigrees, which in Luke is forty-two 

 from Joseph back to David, and in Matthew (when the three 

 expunged kings are restored) is thirty-two. There is analogy 

 enough for the repetition of such a combination of names even in 



