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Jerome — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:1

Patristic A.D. 420

Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420

“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.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Matthew, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:1 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1841) ↗

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