Seventy years is said to constitute the natural life of man. According to these Evangelists Christ's Pre-Davidic ancestors only reached maturity at seventy. How slow was man's development then--a babe in his mother's arms at twenty; a playful child at forty; at sixty an ardent youth wooing a blushing maiden of half a hundred years; at three score years and ten a fond young father rejoicing at the birth of his first-born! 21 What was the average length of each generation from Adam to Abraham? Luke: One hundred years. 22 How many generations were there from Adam to Abraham? Luke: Twenty (iii, 34-38). Luke makes less than half as many generations from Adam to Abraham in a period of two thousand years as he does from David to Jesus in a period of one thousand years. 23 How many generations were there between Rachab, the mother of Booz, and David? Matthew: Three--Booz, Obed and Jesse (i, 5, 6). Rachab lived at Jericho when it was taken by the Israelites. Jericho was taken 1451 B. C., the year that Moses died. David was born 1085 B. C.--nearly four centuries later. 24 Assuming the generations following the Captivity in Matthew and Chronicles to run parallel, how many generations were there between the last generation named in Chronicles and Jesus? Matthew: Four. Yet Chronicles was written, it is claimed, from 458 to 604 years before Christ. "If the Chronicles were written by Ezra, the date of their composition was not far from B. C. 458, the year of the return from the Captivity. If by Daniel, the earlier period of from 604 to 534 must be adopted."--Rev. Dr. Hitchcock. 25 Name the first ten ancestors of Jesus. Luke: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Maleleel, Jared, Enoch, Mathusala, Lamech, Noe (iii, 36-38). Archeological researches have shown these to be ten Babylonian kings. 26 Who was Sala? Luke: "Sala, which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad" (iii, 35, 36). "And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years and begat Salah" (Genesis xi, 12). According to Luke Sala was the grand-son of Arphaxad; according to Genesis he was the son of Arphaxad. 27 Who begat Ozias? Matthew: "Joram begat Ozias" (i, 8). "Ahaziah his [Joram's] son, Joash his son, Amaziah his son, Azariah [Ozias] his son" (1 Chronicles iii, 11, 12). According to the New Testament Ozias was the son of Joram; according to the Old Testament he was the great great-grandson of Joram. 28 Who was Josiah's successor? Matthew: Jechonias (i, 11). "Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead" (2 Chronicles xxxvi, 1). "For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah, his father" (Jeremiah xxii, 11). "And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah, his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim" (2 Kings xxiii, 34).