14 generations in the geneaolgy

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Today’s Gospel (December 17, 2019) presents the genealogy of Jesus. 14 generations + 14 generations + 14 generations. Is there a significance to 14? or 42?
 
The two genealogies, one in Matthew and the other in Luke, are often the subject of comments threads here at CAF. Here are two of them you may find interesting:
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How is Jesus of David's lineage? Apologetics
As someone pointed out, Jesus would have had to become part of David’s line through his father, not his mother. Joseph was of David’s line, and his legal adoption of Jesus was sufficient to make him part of David’s line under Jewish law. Joseph legally adopted Jesus by taking pregnant Mary into his home as his wife. In this way, Jesus became part of David’s line, thus fulfilling the Old Testament prophecy, without Jesus also inheriting the disgrace attached to David’s line as a result of the…
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Are Matthew's & Luke's genealogies both Joseph's or is one Mary's? Sacred Scripture
I know this has most likely been discussed before, but I wanted to ask two things? Are Matthew’s & Luke’s genealogies both of Joseph’s? Or is Luke’s genealogy of Mary? I have heard both arguments. Here is one favoring both are Joseph: The Genealogy of Jesus Christ (According to Eusebius) Here is one favoring only Matthew’s is Joseph’s, while Luke’s is Mary’s: Understanding the Genealogy of Jesus Is there an “official” Catholic teaching on this? If so, could someone post the source? J…
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In its commentary on Matthew 1:17, the New American Bible, Revised Edition speculates on the significance of 14, saying, in part, “Matthew is concerned with fourteen generations, probably because fourteen is the numerical value of the Hebrew letters forming the name of David.” (source)
 
This is the explanation I have heard for many years from many different sources, so that’s what I go with.
 
Holy Bible (Douay Rheims)
Mt 1:17 • ‘So all the generations, from Abraham to David, are fourteen generations. And from David to the transmigration of Babylon, are fourteen generations: and from the transmigration of Babylon to Christ are fourteen generations.’

Commentary:
Ver. 17.
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM. Having enumerated the generations from Abraham to Christ, he divides them into three divisions of fourteen generations, because three times at the end of fourteen generations the state of the people of the Jews was changed. From Abraham to David they were under Judges; from David to the carrying away into Babylon under Kings; from the carrying away to Christ under the High Priests. What he would shew then is this; like as ever at the end of fourteen generations the state of men has changed, so there being fourteen generations completed from the carrying away to Christ, it must needs be that the state of men be changed by Christ. And so since Christ all the Gentiles have been made under one Christ Judge, King, and Priest. And for that Judges, Kings, and Priests prefigured Christ’s dignity, their beginnings were always in a type of Christ; the first of the Judges was Joshua the son of Nave; the first of the Kings, David; the first of the Priests, Jesus son of Josedech. That this was typical of Christ none doubts.

AMBROSE. (ubi sup.) Again, from Jeconiah to Joseph are computed twelve generations; yet he afterwards calls these also fourteen. But if you look attentively, you will be able to discover the method by which fourteen are reckoned here. Twelve are reckoned including Joseph, and Christ is the thirteenth; and history declares that there were two Joakims, that is two Jeconiahs, father and son. The Evangelist has not passed over either of these, but has named them both. Thus, adding the younger Jeconiah, fourteen generations are computed.

REMIGIUS. He made fourteen generations, because the ten denotes the decalogue, and the four the four books of the Gospel; whence this shews the agreement of the Law and the Gospel. And he put the fourteen three times over, that he might shew that the perfection of law, prophecy, and grace, consists in the faith of the Holy Trinity.

REMIGIUS. But if any, maintaining that it is not the same Jeconiah, but two different persons, make the number forty and two, we then shall say that the Holy Church is signified; for this number is the product of seven, and six; (for six times seven make forty-two;) the six denotes labour, and the seven rest.
 
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