Quiz: The God-Man Jesus Christ

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• 1. How many women besides the Blessed Virgin Mary are listed in the genealogy of Jesus Christ given by Matthew the Evangelist?
  1 None
  2 One
  3 Two
  4 Four
  
  Correct answer: №4
  Correct!
  Educational materials: Matthew 1:1-16
  Comment:

  In the genealogy of Christ given by Matthew the evangelist, four women are mentioned: Tamar, Raab, Ruth, and "which was after Uriah," that is, Bathsheba. The presence of women's names in Matthew's genealogy is justified for theological reasons. The evangelist shows how God's plan of union with man is realised in a specific people and in specific individuals. He therefore points to the most significant episodes of Jewish history: the division into 12 tribes (1:2), the rise of the monarchy (1:6), and the Babylonian captivity (1:11-12). Wishing to demonstrate that the monarchical ideology of this particular nation was a foreshadowing of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew traces the genealogy of Christ through David's legitimate son Solomon, the living and active image of the coming Messianic king (Psalm 71). It is important for the evangelist to show that the Providence of God interacts with the free will of the specific heroes of Jewish history, which began with Abraham empowering himself for an unconditioned act and ended (not chronologically, but metaphysically) with the free choice of the Virgin Mary. For the same reason the Evangelist included women in the genealogy. They are the forerunners of the Virgin Mary in that their willful acts changed the course of history of the Divinely created people.

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