| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - as believed, a son of Joseph, and through Mary a grandson of Heli.*** As it may here be objected, that the Jews in their genealogies were accustomed to take no account of the female line,**** a farther hypothesis is had recourse to, namely, that Mary was an heiress, i.e. the daughter of a father without sons; and that in this case, according to Numbers xxxvi. 6, and Nehemiah vii. 63, Jewish custom
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