from Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J. translation and annotating for #FathersoftheChurch series (vol. 64)
ORIGEN: Homilies on Luke (CUA, 1996) page 115 Homily 28, paragraph 1
"Our Lord and Savior was greater than Melchizedek,
whose genealogy Scripture does not trace.
Now the Lord is described as being born according to the order of his ancestors.
Although his divinity has no human origin,
for your sake he willed to be born since you have your origin in flesh.
But the evangelists (Gospel writers: Matthew & Luke) do not give the same account of his genealogy.
This fact has #disquieted some people very much.
Matthew begins to construct his genealogy from Abraham,
and reaches the point at which he says, "BUT THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WAS THUS" (1:18)
and describes him not at the time of his baptism
but at the time at which he came into the world.
Luke, in contrast, when he explains his genealogy, does not proceed from the earlier to the later;
instead, after he had already said that Jesus was baptized, he traces
his ancestry all the way back to GOD himself!
page 115 of Origen's Homily #28 on Luke 3:23-38
