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Jesus was also a descendent of David according to the flesh.
Jesus is both.
Descendant of David by law.
Descendant of David by flesh too.
Jesus was a descendent of David according to the law. St. Joseph is the foster-father of Jesus (law).
Jesus was also a descendent of David according to the flesh. Jesus took His Sacred flesh from the Blessed Virgin Mary (flesh).
We know Jesus descended from David according to the flesh.
ROMANS 1:1b, 3b 1 Jesus Christ . . . who was descended from David **according to the flesh **. . .
Romans 1 is a Scriptural implication of the Blessed Virgin Mary being of the Tribe of Judah (a descendant of David).
St. Joseph is explicitly shown to be of the Tribe of David (Judah–Mary is a Jew or a “Jewish woman”) . .; . but Jesus didn’t take His flesh from St. Joseph (so Romans 1 seems to be asserting the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Davidic lineage too).
If Jesus “according to the flesh” is a descendent of David, and Jesus took His flesh from the Blessed Virgin Mary, you know the Blessed Virgin Mary was a descendant of David too.
**CCC 488 ** “God sent forth his Son”, but to prepare a body for him,125 he wanted the free co-operation of a creature. For this, from all eternity God chose for the mother of his Son a daughter of Israel, a young Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee, “a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary”:126
My wife was at a talk given by Fr. Mitch Pacwa on one occasion. She thought it interesting when Fr. Pacwa mused something to the effect of: “People often look like their mother or father. Since Jesus’ human nature came exclusively from the Blessed Virgin Mary, He must have looked a lot like Mary.”
That makes sense even on a natural level biologically utilizing as it were, the flesh of the Blessed Virgin Mary, although I want to be clear here that the incarnation is a supernatural event—by the power of the Holy Spirit and no mere natural biologic event!
When Fr. Pacwa stated this, he was just matter-of-factly reaffirming the Church’s teaching on all of this in a most practical way.
I hope this helps.
God bless.
Cathoholic
You asked:
Jesus was a descendent of David according to the law.
Jesus was also a descendent of David according to the flesh.
Jesus is both.
Descendant of David by law.
Descendant of David by flesh too.
Jesus was a descendent of David according to the law. St. Joseph is the foster-father of Jesus (law).
Jesus was also a descendent of David according to the flesh. Jesus took His Sacred flesh from the Blessed Virgin Mary (flesh).
We know Jesus descended from David according to the flesh.
ROMANS 1:1b, 3b 1 Jesus Christ . . . who was descended from David **according to the flesh **. . .
Romans 1 is a Scriptural implication of the Blessed Virgin Mary being of the Tribe of Judah (a descendant of David).
St. Joseph is explicitly shown to be of the Tribe of David (Judah–Mary is a Jew or a “Jewish woman”) . .; . but Jesus didn’t take His flesh from St. Joseph (so Romans 1 seems to be asserting the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Davidic lineage too).
If Jesus “according to the flesh” is a descendent of David, and Jesus took His flesh from the Blessed Virgin Mary, you know the Blessed Virgin Mary was a descendant of David too.
**CCC 488 ** “God sent forth his Son”, but to prepare a body for him,125 he wanted the free co-operation of a creature. For this, from all eternity God chose for the mother of his Son a daughter of Israel, a young Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee, “a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary”:126
The Father of mercies willed that the Incarnation should be preceded by assent on the part of the predestined mother, so that just as a woman had a share in the coming of death, so also should a woman contribute to the coming of life.127
LUMEN GENTIUM Section 52a 52. Wishing in his supreme goodness and wisdom to effect the redemption of the world, “when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman . . . that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal. 4:4). “He for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnated by the Holy Spirit from the Virgin Mary.”[1] . . .
LUMEN GENTIUM Section 55b . . . . After a long period of waiting the times are fulfilled in her, the exalted Daughter of Sion and the new plan of salvation is established, when the Son of God has taken human nature from her, that he might in the mysteries of his flesh free man from sin.
NICENE CREED Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And he was made flesh by the Holy Spirit from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
NICENE CREED (Latin) Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.
COUNCIL OF EPHESUS (431 A.D.) . . . So he who existed and was begotten of the Father before all ages is also said to have been begotten according to the flesh of a woman, without the divine nature either beginning to exist in the holy virgin, or needing of itself a second begetting after that from his Father.
GENESIS 3:15a 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed;
GALATIANS 4:4a (DRV Catholic Bible) 4 But when the fulness of time was come, God sent his Son, made (Greek = ginomai) of a woman, . . . .
LUMEN GENTIUM Section 52a 52. Wishing in his supreme goodness and wisdom to effect the redemption of the world, “when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman . . . that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal. 4:4). “He for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnated by the Holy Spirit from the Virgin Mary.”[1] . . .
LUMEN GENTIUM Section 55b . . . . After a long period of waiting the times are fulfilled in her, the exalted Daughter of Sion and the new plan of salvation is established, when the Son of God has taken human nature from her, that he might in the mysteries of his flesh free man from sin.
NICENE CREED Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And he was made flesh by the Holy Spirit from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
NICENE CREED (Latin) Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis. Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.
COUNCIL OF EPHESUS (431 A.D.) . . . So he who existed and was begotten of the Father before all ages is also said to have been begotten according to the flesh of a woman, without the divine nature either beginning to exist in the holy virgin, or needing of itself a second begetting after that from his Father.
GENESIS 3:15a 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed;
GALATIANS 4:4a (DRV Catholic Bible) 4 But when the fulness of time was come, God sent his Son, made (Greek = ginomai) of a woman, . . . .
My wife was at a talk given by Fr. Mitch Pacwa on one occasion. She thought it interesting when Fr. Pacwa mused something to the effect of: “People often look like their mother or father. Since Jesus’ human nature came exclusively from the Blessed Virgin Mary, He must have looked a lot like Mary.”
That makes sense even on a natural level biologically utilizing as it were, the flesh of the Blessed Virgin Mary, although I want to be clear here that the incarnation is a supernatural event—by the power of the Holy Spirit and no mere natural biologic event!
When Fr. Pacwa stated this, he was just matter-of-factly reaffirming the Church’s teaching on all of this in a most practical way.
I hope this helps.
God bless.
Cathoholic