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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

“(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.”

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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