Home › Douai-Rheims 1609 › Matthew › Chapter 1

Matthew — Chapter 1

Douai-Rheims 1609 · Annotations

These annotations are from the original 1582 Rheims New Testament, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Rheims. The archaic spelling is preserved.

⚠ Note on Chapter & Verse Numbers

This content was digitized from the original 1609 Douay (Old Testament) and 1582 Rheims (New Testament) print editions by OCR. The OCR process sometimes confused print page numbers with verse numbers, and may have assigned annotations to the wrong chapter. Chapter and verse labels on this page reflect the OCR output from the original print pagination and may not correspond to canonical Scripture chapter/verse numbers. For canonical reference, consult a standard Douay-Rheims edition. The annotation texts themselves are authentic 1609/1582 Douay-Rheims content.

Verse 3

3. Thamar. ) Christ abhorred not to take flesh of some that were il, as he chose Iudas among his Apostles: Let not vs disdaine to receiue our spiritual birth and sustenance of such as be not alwayes good.

Verse 16

16. Ioseph. ) Ioseph marying our Lady as neere of kinne (for so was the * law) by his pedegree sheweth her, and consequently Christs pedegree from Dauid. Num. 36.

Verse 20

20. Borne in her. ) The triple good or persecution of mariage accomplished in the parents of Christ, to wit, Issue, Fidelitie, Sacrament, Aug. de nup. & conc. li. 1. c. 12.

Verse 23

23. A virgin. ) Virginitie preferred. Our Sauiour borne in mariage, but yet of a Virgin, would honour both states: and withal, teacheth vs against Iouinian the old Heretike and these of our time, that virginity and the continent life are preferred before mariage that hath carnal copulation. See S. Hierom. adu. Iouin. & S. Greg. Nazianz. Ser. 10 de studio in pauperes, in initio.

Verse 25

25. Til. First-borne. ) Tradition. Heludius of old abused these wordes, til, and first borne, against the perpetual virginity of our B. Ladie. Hiero. cont. Helu. which truth though not expressed in Scripture, yet our Aduersaries also do graunt, & Heludius for denial therof was condemned for an heretike by tradition only. Aug. her. 84.