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Excerpt from The Gospel According to Matthew: Chapters I., II., III.; Translated From the Greek, on the Basis of the Common English Version, With Notes
I There appears to be no good reason for taking the original here in the sense of 'born'. The word occurs forty times in the first sixteen verses of this chapter, and is in every other instance rendered 'beget'. The only difference in the original is, that this has the passive form, while all the others have the active. For example, in v. 5, we have, according to the com. Ver., Salmon begat 13002 of Rachab Let the same be expressed passively, and we shall have Booz was begotten of which latter construction is parallel with the case in hand. Besides, the use of the phrase, 'of whom',4 in this construction, makes Mary the remote object of the verb, and thus precludes a reference to her, like that in the com. Ver., as its subject. On this account 'was born' has been changed to 'was begotten', and the collocation slightly altered, to improve the idiom. Such is the rendering of Penn, Eras, Beza, Bengel, and others.
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