Julius Africanus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, The Epistle to Aristides… (1885)
“ Thus neither of the evangelists is in error, as the one reckons by nature and the other by law. For the several generations, viz., those descending from Solomon and those from Nathan, were so intermingled [2] by the raising up of children to the childless, [3] and by second marriages, and the raising up of seed, that the same persons are quite justly reckoned to belong at one time to the one, and at another to the other, i.e., to their reputed or to their actual fathers. ”
