{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Seventy-five men are reported to have entered Egypt along\r\nwith Jacob, counting him with his children. In this number\r\nonly two women are mentioned, one a daughter, the other a\r\ngrand-daughter. But when the thing is carefully considered,\r\nit does not appear that Jacob's offspring was so numerous on the\r\nday or year when he entered Egypt. There are also included\r\namong them the great-grandchildren of Joseph, who could not\r\npossibly be born already. For Jacob was then 130 years old,\r\nand his son Joseph thirty-nine; and as it is plain that he\r\ntook a wife when he was thirty or more, how could he in nine\r\nyears have great-grandchildren by the children whom he had\r\nby that wife? Now, since Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons\r\nof Joseph, could not even have children, for Jacob found them\r\nboys under nine years old when he entered Egypt, in what\r\nway are not only their sons but their grandsons reckoned\r\namong those seventy-five who then entered Egypt with Jacob?\r\nFor there is reckoned there Machir the son of Manasseh, grandson\r\nof Joseph, and Machir's son, that is, Gilead, grandson of\r\nManasseh, great-grandson of Joseph; there, too, is he whom\r\nEphraim, Joseph's other son, begot, that is, Shuthelah, grandson\r\nof Joseph, and Shuthelah's son Ezer, grandson of Ephraim,\r\nand great-grandson of Joseph, who could not possibly be in\r\nexistence when Jacob came into Egypt, and there found his\r\ngrandsons, the sons of Joseph, their grandsires, still boys under\r\nnine years of age.<a id=\"FNanchor_330_330\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_330_330\">[330]</a> But doubtless, when the Scripture mentions\r\nJacob's entrance into Egypt with seventy-five souls, it does<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_159\">[Pg 159]</a></span>\r\nnot mean one day, or one year, but that whole time as long as\r\nJoseph lived, who was the cause of his entrance. For the\r\nsame Scripture speaks thus of Joseph: \"And Joseph dwelt\r\nin Egypt, he and his brethren, and all his father's house: and\r\nJoseph lived 110 years, and saw Ephraim's children of the\r\nthird generation.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_331_331\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_331_331\">[331]</a> That is, his great-grandson, the third from\r\nEphraim; for the third generation means son, grandson, great-grandson.\r\nThen it is added, \"The children also of Machir,\r\nthe son of Manasseh, were born upon Joseph's knees.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_332_332\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_332_332\">[332]</a> And\r\nthis is that grandson of Manasseh, and great-grandson of\r\nJoseph. But the plural number is employed according to\r\nscriptural usage; for the one daughter of Jacob is spoken of\r\nas daughters, just as in the usage of the Latin tongue <i>liberi</i> is\r\nused in the plural for children even when there is only one.\r\nNow, when Joseph's own happiness is proclaimed, because he\r\ncould see his great-grandchildren, it is by no means to be\r\nthought they already existed in the thirty-ninth year of their\r\ngreat-grandsire Joseph, when his father Jacob came to him in\r\nEgypt. But those who diligently look into these things will\r\nthe less easily be mistaken, because it is written, \"These are\r\nthe names of the sons of Israel who entered into Egypt along\r\nwith Jacob their father.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_333_333\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_333_333\">[333]</a> For this means that the seventy-five\r\nare reckoned along with him, not that they were all with\r\nhim when he entered Egypt; for, as I have said, the whole\r\nperiod during which Joseph, who occasioned his entrance, lived,\r\nis held to be the time of that entrance.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-272"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"03d17588652ef7dfe3cc17f6d398b34a596f705538881731d803c26a042a6ee9","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":46,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xlvi. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_330_330","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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