Verse 5
5. The fathers Including not only Abraham and his patriarchal sons, but the whole wonderful pedigree running through Heber up to Adam. This recorded pedigree, the very pith of the human race, Israel alone had preserved. At one end (according to Luke’s list) was Adam and God, at the other Christ; so that Israel was the divine Adamic-Messianic race.
The flesh In antithesis with his being over all, God. So that we have here his double nature as human-divine.
Over all As he is humanly the descendant of all, so he is divinely the Over-all, the Supreme.
God This solemn epithet can here be no otherwise held than in apposition with Over all. It then stands indisputably as a title of Christ, as in Titus 1:3; Titus 2:13; John 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:16.
Antitrinitarian commentators have placed a full stop after all, and rendered the last clause God be blessed forever. But, 1. This destroys the above-named antithesis, and renders the phrase according to the flesh superfluous. 2. In all cases where the doxology of the kind supposed occurs in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, the word for blessed precedes the divine name Blessed be God. In this form the phrase occurs, according to Stuart, more than thirty times in the Old Testament.
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