And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
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Douay Rheims 1609
AD 1609
AND it came to pass after these things, that David struck the Philistines, and humbled them, and took away Geth, and her (a) daughters out of the hand of the Philistines,
(a) The lesser towns and villages are commonly called the daughters of some great town or city to which they pertain.
Sale. The Roman Septuagint omits ver. 11 to 17, and ver. 18 to 24, having only, (17) "The sons of Sem, Ail am and Assur; (24) and Arphaxad, Sala. "(Haydock)
But the other copies here insert Cainan, as the father of Sale. See Genesis x. 24. (Calmet)
It is a matter of great doubt whether he ought not to be inserted, Luke iii. (Haydock)
Arphaxad beget Sale: Notwithstanding the veneration due to the Latin Vulgate, which is to be esteemed authentic, Cornelius a Lapide calls it a chronological problem, whether the word Cainan as found in the Septuagint and Gospel of Luke be the true reading, or whether it has slipt into the text. It is true Cainan is found in the Septuagint Genesis 10:24., Genesis 11:44., and 1 Chronicles 1:18; though, in this last place, Cornelius a Lapide says, it is wanting in one edition of the Septuagint by Sixtus V.; at least it is not read in all those places, neither in the Hebrew, nor Latin Vulgate. Some say that here in St. Luke's text, is found Cainan, because his citations are conformable to the Septuagint. Others conjecture that Cainan and Sale were only different names of one and the same person, so that the sense may be, who was of Sale, who is also Cainan.
