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| Chapter XV. How Christ could be said by the Apostle to be without genealogy.
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Chapter XV.
How Christ could be said by the Apostle to be without
genealogy.
How does he say that the
Lord was “without genealogy,” when the Gospel of the
Evangelist Matthew begins with the Saviour’s genealogy, saying:
“The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the Son of David,
the Son of Abraham”?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’s side, according to the Apostle He has not, as He springs
from the Father. And so the Apostle well says: “Without father,
without mother, without genealogy:” 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 “without
father,” when born in the flesh: and according to the Apostle,
the Lord has not, when begotten in His Divine nature “without
mother;” as Isaiah says: “But who shall declare His
generation?”2627
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