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Mat 1:2. Ἀβραάμ, Abraham) St Matthew, in enumerating our Lord’s ancestors, adopts the order of descent (though he employs that of ascent in Mat 1:1), and begins also from Abraham, instead of Adam, not however to the exclusion of the Gentiles (cf. Mat 28:19), since in Abraham all nations are made blessed.-καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ, and his brethren) These words are not added in the case of Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob, though they also had brethren, but only in that of Judah: for the promises were restricted to the family of Israel.