Jechonias begat Salathiel — Here we encounter a cluster of genealogical difficulties.

1. The natural impre ion left by J…

With one or two exceptions, these are names of persons of little or no note. The later ones were persons altogether obscure and insignificant. Our …

Pseudo-Chrysostom: After the exile, he lists Jeconiah again, as he had now become a private person.

The final list of “fourteen” begins with a further mention of the Exile. Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) was the father of Shealtiel. Matthew goes on to pres…

After the Babylonian exile, that is, after the Jews were carried into captivity: for the Evangelist means that the descendants of David, f…

And after they were brought to Babylon
Not Jechonias, but the father of Jechonias, and the Jews.

Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe the chief intention. It is not a needless genealogy. It is not a vainglorious one, as those of gr…

Here is related the third series of fourteen in Christ’s generation, which proceeds through private persons. Concerning this Jechonias, as was said…