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 …

Glossa Ordinaria: Finally, after all the patriarchs, he lists Joseph, the husband of Mary, for whose sake all the others are i…

Matthew’s chief aims in including the genealogy are hinted at in the first verse—namely, to show that Jesus Messiah is truly in the kingly line of …

Jesus, who is called Christ. By the designation Christ, Anointed, Matthew points out his office, to inform the readers that this …

And Jacob begat Joseph
According to an old tradition mentioned by ^F16 Epiphanins, this Jacob, the father …

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…