"The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position."

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Source : William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

William Rathbone Greg

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