Translations:AY Honors/Genealogy - Advanced/Answer Key/12/en
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Paul also mentioned this in Titus:
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless.
The SDA Commentary suggests that Paul was cautioning against the common practice among the Jews to attempt to trace their ancestry back to "a Davidic or priestly heritage." It further states that "Much of Jewish teaching and preaching was based on finely spun allegories that pleased the fancies of the people without feeding their souls." - Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 7, pg 288.
