The Gospel according to the genealogy

I knew the genealogy in Matthew had to be there for some divine purpose, it just took until reading Edwards to see it:

"All the mothers are not noted, but only those which were either harlots or Gentiles, except the wife of Urias the Hittite, who was a wife of a Gentile. These are taken notice of because Christ's descending from several harlots and Gentiles intimates unto us that all that were saved by Christ were sinners, that the church of Christ is made up wholly of such as were once sinners, that is, spiritual harlots, or adulterers, and idolaters, thereby also typifying the calling of the Gentiles"

from "Notes on Scrpture" p. 51.