Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
evident—literally, "manifest before the eyes" as a thing indisputable; a proof that whatever difficulties may now appear, then Jesus Christ's genealogy labored under none.
our Lord—the only place where this now common title occurs without "Jesus," or "Christ," except II Peter 3:15.
sprang—as a plant, and a branch.
Judah— Genesis 49:10; Luke 1:27, Luke 1:39 (Hebron of Judah, where LIGHTFOOT thinks Jesus was conceived) Luke 2:4-5; Revelation 5:5.
of which tribe . . . priesthood—"in respect to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests" (so the oldest manuscripts read, nothing to imply that priests were to be taken from it).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hebrews 7:14:
1 Chronicles 5:1
Luke 2:36
1 Timothy 5:24
Hebrews 1:5
Hebrews 8:4
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