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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 1, 16. Of Christ’s Nativity
The Israelites, brought back by Zorobabel as aforesaid, now murmured against God, now rushed after idols, and imitated the abominations of the Gentiles. While they despised the prophets of God, they were given over to the Gentiles, enslaved, and slain, until the Lord Himself, promised by the voice of patriarchs and prophets, and through the Holy Ghost entering the womb of the Virgin Mary, deigned to be born for the redemption of this as for all other peoples.
From the going into captivity to the birth of Christ are fourteen generations: Jechonias, Salathiel, Zorobabel, Abiud, Heliachim, Azor, Sadoc, Ioachim, Heliuth, Heleazar, Mathan, Jacob, Joseph, spouse of Mary, of whom our Lord Jesus Christ was born. Which Joseph is counted as the fourteenth.