Matthew 1:1 Douay-Rheims

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

Jerome

c. A.D. 347–420 Patristic

The order of the names is inverted, but of necessity; for had he written Abraham first, and David afterwards, he would have to repeat Abraham again to preserve the series of the genealogy.

Source details
A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:1

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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