1 Chronicles
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Introduction[i]
These Books, written or drawn up after the captivity (see 1Ch_6:15), preserve God's history of His people, recorded by the Holy Ghost, as He loved to remember it, exhibiting only such faults as require to be known in order to understand the instructions of His grace.
He records at the same time the names of those who had
gone through the trials mentioned in this history without being blotted out of
the book. Here indeed it is but the outward figure of this blessed memorial of
the people of His grace; but in fact this is what we find here. All Israel is
not there; but all are not Israel who are of Israel. At the same time the
Spirit of God goes farther back, and gives us the genealogy from Adam of the
generation blessed by grace according to the sovereignty of God, with that
which belonged to it outwardly, or after the flesh. He puts into relief,
sufficiently to make it apparent, the part owned in grace, which stood
externally in relationship with that which was merely outward and natural;
putting always that which is natural first, as the apostle tells us.