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Quinta die infra Octavam Nativitatis Beatae Máriae Virginis;;Semiduplex;;2;;ex Sancti/09-08

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Evangélium Szt Máté könyvéből
!Matt 1:1-17
Jézus Krisztus, Dávid fiának, Ábrahám fiának nemzetségtáblája. Ábrahám nemzette Izsákot, Izsák nemzette Jákobot És így tovább.
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Homily by St Hilary, Bishop (of Poitiers.)
!Comment, on Matth. i.)
By the generation which Matthew noteth in the Kingly, and Luke in the Priestly descent of our Lord, both mean to show His relationship with each race, and both reach it in the clear line of the pedigree which they are tracing, for that connection between the Kingly and Priestly houses which was begun by the marriage of David was fully accomplished in the link between Salathiel and Zorobabel. And so while Matthew recordeth the line from father to son coming down from Judah, and Luke teacheth the descent from the tribe of Levi through Nathan, both prove that by His forefathers our Lord Jesus, Who is already a King and a Priest from everlasting to everlasting, hath also the right to these dignities by earthly inheritance.