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Patristic A.D. 420 · Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:1

Jerome, on Matt 1:1

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

Matt 1:1 · Douay-Rheims

“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:”

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“(Prolog. in Comm. in Matt.) ‘The face of a man’ (in Ezekiel’s vision [Ez. 1:5]) signifies Matthew, who accordingly opens his Gospel with the human genealogy of Christ.”

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