SHEM.                |             HAM. 
Elam.Asshur.Arphaxad, Lud.  Aram,  |Cush,     Mizraim, Phut.  Canaan,
Salah,         Uz,    |Seba,     Ludim,         Sidon,
Eber,          Hul,   |Havilah,  Anamim,        Heth,
Peleg,         Gether,|Sabtah,   Lehabim,       Jebusite,
Joktan,        Mash.  |Raamah,   Naphtuhim,     Amorite,
Almodad,              |Sabtechab,Pathrusim,     Girgasite,
Sheleph,              |Sheba,    Caslubim,      Hivite,
Hazarmaveth,          |Dedan,    Caphtorim,     Arkite,
Jerah,                |Nimrod.    Philistim.      Sinite,
Hadoram,              |                         Arvadite,
Uzal,                 |                         Zemarite,
Diklah,               |                         Hamathite. 
Obal,                 |
Abimael,              |
Sheba,                |
Ophir,                |
Havilah,              |
Jobab.                |

                      JAPHETH. 

Gomer, Magog.  Madai.  Javan, Tubal.  Meshech.  Tiras. 
Ashkenaz, Elishah,
Riphath, Tarshish,
Togarmah.  Kittim,

          
                                          Dodanim.

It often happens that one branch of a family is exceedingly prolific whilst another is barren.  So it seems to have been with the descendants of the three sons of Noah.  Thus, Elam, Ashur, and others, appear each to have founded only one nation, whilst Arphaxad and his posterity founded eighteen.

[45:1] Luke x. 1.

[45:2] John iv. 39.

[45:3] Mark vii. 24, 26, 30, 31.

[45:4] This is the opinion of Dr Robinson.  See His “Harmony.”  See also Luke ix. 51, 52, x. 33.

[45:5] Luke x. 13, 17, 18.

[45:6] Matt. xv. 24.

[46:1] Rev. xxi. 14.

[46:2] It is certain that some were called apostles who were not of the number of the Twelve.  See Acts xiv. 4.  In 1 Cor. xv. 5, 7, both “the Twelve,” and “all the apostles,” are mentioned, and it may be that the Seventy are included under the latter designation.  Such was the opinion of Origen—­[Greek:  epeita tois eterois para tous dodeka apostolois pasi, tacha tois ebdomekoita].  “Contra Celsum,” lib. ii. 65.  See also “De Recta in Deum Fide,” sec. i., Opera, tom. i. p. 806.

[46:3] Luke x. 9, 16, 19, 24.

[46:4] Eph. ii. 20.  See also Eph. iii. 5.  It is evident, especially from the latter passage, that the prophets here spoken of belong to the New Testament Church.

[47:1] Acts xv. 6, xxi. 18.

[47:2] 1 Pet. v. 1; 2 John v. 1; 3 John v. 1.  It is remarkable that Papias, one of the very earliest of the fathers, actually speaks of the apostles simply as the elders.  See Euseb. book iii. chap. 39.

[47:3] Thus, Simon Zelotes is said to have travelled into Egypt and thence passed into Mesopotamia and Persia, where he suffered martyrdom; whilst, according to others, he travelled through Egypt to Mauritania and thence to Britain, where he was crucified.  See Cave’s “Lives of the Apostles,” Life of Simon the Zealot.  No weight can be attached to such legends.  Origen states that the Apostle Thomas laboured in Parthia, and Andrew in Scythia.  “In Genesim,” Opera, tom. ii. p. 24.