ON THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW Ver. 1. 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. RABANUS. By this exordium he shews that it is the birth of Christ according to the flesh that he has undertaken to narrate. PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM. (Homil. in Matt. Hom. i.) Matthew
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