I have a question about today's gospel , Mt. 1, 1-17. After stating all the genealogy, Mt. Points out that something significant occurs every 14 generations until the birth of Jesus. How many generations (not sure how many years they consider a generation ) has it been since Jesus was born or died. And has anything significant happened in that time period?
On reflecting on today's Gospel this Feast of the Holy Innocents it always makes me wonder about the implications here. Because all those baby boys were slaughtered -- our Lord had no peers in the land of His birth. From the beginning there was no one who could be compared to Him!
Waht a Great Question. It has me thinking!! It appears it is the number 42, 3 times 14 that is significant , not the 14 for the fourteen is not a significant number in Scripture: http://hermeneutics.stackexchange.c...enerations-in-matthew-s-account-of-jesuss-gen The trouble comes with trying to define what time length the bible means by a generation and multiplying it by 42.
I think this seems to be a good answer: http://www.bible.ca/pre-mt24-this-generation.htm It suggests a scriptural generation is between 40 to 70 years. So mulitply by 42..and we get between 1680 and 2940. So between AD 1680 and AD 2940. Don't ask me what this means , I have no idea. But it was fun doing it.
