Matthew 1:1
Douay-Rheims
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
Jerome
(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.
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.