Well may our hearts melt at the memory of David and Bathsheba! The fruit of their unholy union died, but after repentance, she who “had been the wi…

The Evangelist has now finished the first fourteen generations and has come to the second, which consists of royal figures. Beginning with David, w…

There is no obvious pattern to the kings mentioned here: wicked Rehoboam was the father of wicked Abijah, the father of the good king Asa. Asa was …

And Asa begat Josaphat
Called Jehoshaphat, (1 Kings 15:24) whom Asa begat of Azubah, the daughter of Shi…

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…

Having presented the genealogical lineage of the ancestors, which pa ed through the Patriarchs, here the Evangelist presents the lineage of the fat…