threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred] Prophane infidells will not beleeve that one man should have so great an increase in 250 yeers space; but how easie was it for him to multiply one into so many, in so many yeers, who out of nothing made all things in six dayes space? Gen. 1. See Annot. on Exod. Chap. 1. vers. 12. This is the greatest number of the progenie of any of the tribes, whereby it appeareth that Judah had the preeminence, not onely of dignity royall, but of multitude of his off-spring above the other tribes; to which may be added that from his tribe descended the Saviour of the world, called the lion of the tribe of Judah, Revelation 5:5. with reference to this Patriarch compared to a Lion, Genesis 49:9. Numbers 24:9. and that very fitly, because of the courage of that tribe. See Annot. on Gen chap. 49. vers. 9.