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Rabanus Maurus — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 1:1

Medieval A.D. 856

Rabanus Maurus · c. A.D. 780–856

“Though the genealogy occupies only a small part of the volume, he yet begins thus, The book of the generation. For it is the manner of the Hebrews to name their books from that with which they open; as Genesis.”

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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