224A Statement of the Reason Why the Enumeration of the Ancestors of Christ is
Carried Down to Joseph, While Christ Was Not Born of that Man’s Seed, But
of the Virgin Mary.
226An Explanation of the Sense in Which Christ is the Son of David, Although He
Was Not Begotten in the Way of Ordinary Generation by Joseph the Son of
David.
227A Statement of the Reason Why Matthew Enumerates One Succession of
Ancestors for Christ, and Luke Another.
230Of the Reason Why Forty Generations (Not Including Christ Himself) are Found
in Matthew, Although He Divides Them into Three Successions of Fourteen
Each.
235A Statement of the Manner in Which Luke’s Procedure is Proved to Be in
Harmony with Matthew’s in Those Matters Concerning the Conception and
the Infancy or Boyhood of Christ, Which are Omitted by the One and Recorded
by the Other.
245On the Position Given to the Preaching of John the Baptist in All the Four
Evangelists.
248Of the Two Herods.
249An Explanation of the Statement Made by Matthew, to the Effect that Joseph
Was Afraid to Go with the Infant Christ into Jerusalem on Account of Archelaus,
and Yet Was Not Afraid to Go into Galilee, Where Herod, that Prince’s Brother,
Was Tetrarch.
250An Explanation of the Circumstance that Matthew States that Joseph’s Reason
for Going into Galilee with the Child Christ Was His Fear of Archelaus, Who
Was Reigning at that Time in Jerusalem in Place of His Father, While Luke Tells
Us that the Reason for Going into Galilee Was the Fact that Their City Nazareth
Was There.
251A Statement of the Reason Why Luke Tells Us that ‘His Parents Went to
Jerusalem Every Year at the Feast of the Passover’ Along with the Boy; While
Matthew Intimates that Their Dread of Archelaus Made Them Afraid to Go
There on Their Return from Egypt.
252An Examination of the Question as to How It Was Possible for Them to Go
Up, According to Luke’s Statement, with Him to Jerusalem to the Temple, When
the Days of the Purification of the Mother of Christ Were Accomplished, in
Order to Perform the Usual Rites, If It is Correctly Recorded by Matthew, that
Herod Had Already Learned from the Wise Men that the Child Was Born in
Whose Stead, When He Sought for Him, He Slew So Many Children.
254Concerning the Words Ascribed to John by All the Four Evangelists Respectively.
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