{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2111190.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2111190.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2111190.htm","text":"How Christ could be said by the Apostle to be without genealogy.\nHow does he say that the Lord was \u201cwithout genealogy,\u201d when the Gospel of the Evangelist Matthew begins with the Saviour\u2019s genealogy, saying: \u201cThe book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham\u201d? 2626 Therefore according to the Evangelist He has a genealogy, and according to the Apostle, He has not: for according to the Evangelist, He has it on the mother\u2019s side, according to the Apostle He has not, as He springs from the Father. And so the Apostle well says: \u201cWithout father, without mother, without genealogy:\u201d and where he lays down that He was begotten without mother, there also he records that He was without genealogy. And thus as regards both the nativities of the Lord, the writings of the Evangelist and of the Apostle agree together. For according to the Evangelist He has a genealogy \u201cwithout father,\u201d when born in the flesh: and according to the Apostle, the Lord has not, when begotten in His Divine nature \u201cwithout mother;\u201d as Isaiah says: \u201cBut who shall declare His generation?\u201d 2627\nS. Matt. i. 1.\n612:2627","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Wor...","type":"page"}