John Trapp on Matthew 1:16

Verse 16. And Iacob begat Ioseph,] Whose genealogie is here recorded, and not Maries: it being not the custom of that people [illegible: 1 word], to set forth the genealogies of women. As at this day, the Blunts voyage into the Levant. p. 121. Jews have an over-base conceit of that sex; saying that they have not so divine a soul as men, but are of a lower creation, &c. and therefore they suffer them not to enter the Synagogue, but appoint them a gallery without. The husband of Mary, of whom was born Iesus] This is the summe of all the good news in the world, such as surpasseth the joy of conquest, or of harvest, Isa. 9 3, 5, 6. and should therefore swallow up all discontents whatsoever. Who is called Christ] The name of Jesus is mel in ore, melos in Bern. aure, jubilum in cord: as it was to St Paul, who therefore names it nine severall times in the ten first verses of his first Epistle to the Corinthians, as loth to come off it. Yet is not the name Jesus alone half so sweet, as when Christ is added to it, as here. For Iesus Christ betokeneth such a Saviour as is anointed and appointed thereunto by God, consecrated to the office, according to his Godhead, and [illegible: 1 word] for it, according to his manhood: In both [illegible: 1 word] a Saviour, and that ex professo (as you would say) and by [illegible: 1 word] of all three persons: The Son being anointed by the Father, [illegible: 1 word] the Holy Ghost: And as Sampson when clothed with the spirit, saved the people: so Christ much more.