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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 15, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 11.

Genealogy of Christ

By S. P. W.

3075.— Genealogy of Christ.— S. P. W.— It is very easy to understand the difference between the genealogy given by Luke 3 and Matthew 1 if we will remember that one gives Christ's lineage through the mother, and the other through the father; one through Mary, the other through Joseph. However, Joseph is reckoned next to Christ in both cases, because of the legal aspect of the affair. Heirship comes through father, not through mother. Christ's kingship comes through the father, tracing from David down through Solomon to Joseph, the legal father of Jesus. Christ's humanity comes through His mother, tracing the record down from Adam to Joseph or to Mary the wife of Joseph. It will be noticed, if care is given in the comparing of these chronologies, that they touch at two different points, or cross, so to speak, in the two lines of David's sons; for instance, Mary's line coming through Nathan, Joseph's through Solomon; both of them terminating, the one in the father, and the other in the mother, of our Lord.