Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 1:3

3. And Judas begat Phares and Sarah of Tamar and Phares begat Esrom, and Esrom begat Aram.

That Iudas begat Pharez and Zarah (they were Twins begot of Thamar his Daughter-in-Law, the relict of his Son Er whom God slew Gen. 38.7.) appeareth from Gen. 38.27, 28, 29, 30. That Pharez begat Ezrom, appeareth from Ruth 4.18. and 1 Chron. 2.5. and from the same Texts appears also that Ezrom begat Aram, Ruth 4.19. 1 Chron. 2.9. where he is called Ram, some may possibly be offended that amongst all the Ancestors of Christ, there are but three Women named, and all of th[illegible: 1 letter]m such as had a great stain and blot upon their Reputation. [illegible: 1 word] Thamar, the Mother of Pharez and Zara was blotted with Incest, and Pharez was one of the Children begot in that Incest. Rahab also is mentioned, v. 5. whom the Scripture calleth an Harlot, Iosh. 2.1. and Bathsheba was stained with Adultery. But we ought to consider, 1. That (abating Original Corruption which we indeed all derive from our Parents) no man deriveth any intrinsick badness from the Vice of his Parents, tho he may derive, a blot upon his Honour and Reputation, from it. 2. That this was one degree of our Saviours Humiliation. 3. That it was no way incongruous, that he who came into the World to dye for great Sinners, should be born of some that were such.