From Nave’s Topical Bible
Mattatha
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
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- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- An ancestor of JesusLuke 3:31
The passages, in Bible order (1)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 1 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Luke 3:31
the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
Commentary on Luke 3:312 voices
(Carm. 18.) But some say that there is one succession from David to Joseph, which each Evangelist relates under different names. But this is absurd, since at the beginning of this genealogy, two brothers come in Nathan and Salomon, from whom the lines are carried in different ways. (ubi sup.) From David upwards according to each Evangelist there is an unbroken line of descent; as it follows, Who was the son of Jesse.
Gregory of Nazianzus· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 390Patristic
(2.) It is dated by the governments of the viceroys that ruled in the several parts of the Holy Land under the Roman emperor, which was another badge of their servitude, for they were all foreigners, which bespeaks a sad change with that people whose governors used to be of themselves ( Jer. xxx. 21 ), and it was their glory.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan