John Trapp on Matthew 1:17

Verse 17. So all the generations, &c. are fourteen generations] [illegible: 1 word] cades. For memory sake, Matthew summeth up the genealogy of our Saviour into three fourteens: like as some of the [illegible: 1 word] are, [illegible: 1 word] the same reason, set down in order of the Alphabet. Discere voluit [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 2 words]. Socrates, [illegible: 1 word] aliud esse quàm [illegible: 1 word], saith Tully. Magis autem. Christi meminisse debemus, quam respirare. The soul should be as the Ark of God, the memory like the pot of Manna, preserving holy truths touching him that is the Way, the Truth, and the life.