Verses 18-25 Let us look to the circumstances under which the Son of God entered into this lower world, till we learn to despise the vain honours of this world, when compared with piety and holiness. When the Son of God was pleased to take our nature, he came near to us, in our fallen, wretched condition but he was perfectly free from sin: and while we read the names in his genealogy, we should not forget how low the Lord of glory stooped to save the human race. Now this is here proved from well-known records. 132:11 and, therefore, unless Jesus is a son of David, and a son of Abraham, he is not the Messiah. It was promised to Abraham that Christ should descend from him, Ge. 12:3 Ge. 22:18 and to David that he should descend from him, 2Sa. 7:12 Ps. 89:3, &c. The promise of the blessing was made to Abraham and his seed of the dominion, to David and his seed. It proves that our Lord Jesus is of the nation and family out of which the Messiah was to arise. It is not a vain-glorious one, as those of great men often are. Verses 1-17 Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe the chief intention. Here are particularly selected such parts of our Saviour's history and discourses as were best suited to awaken the Jewish nation to a sense of their sins to remove their erroneous expectations of an earthly kingdom to abate their pride and self-conceit to teach them the spiritual nature and extent of the gospel and to prepare them for the admission of the Gentiles into the church. The fulfilment of prophecy was regarded by the Jews as strong evidence, therefore this is especially dwelt upon by St. The contents of this Gospel, and the evidence of ancient writers, show that it was written primarily for the use of the Jewish nation. He is generally allowed to have written his Gospel before any other of the evangelists. Matthew, surnamed Levi, before his conversion was a publican, or tax-gatherer under the Romans at Capernaum.
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