bold = Main text
   Chapter                                   grey = Comment text

 1 1intro|         as a phantom; so that the virgin's conception, and pregnancy,
 2 2     |      angel? The conception in the virgin's womb is also set plainly
 3 4     |          been born, and that of a virgin, and of a fleshly nature
 4 6     |    himself, in the spirit, on the virgin Philumene, proceeded from
 5 17    |        TRACED BETWEEN EVE AND THE VIRGIN MARY.~But, leaving Alexander
 6 17    |           received flesh from the virgin? that we may thus arrive
 7 17    |          of God's being born of a virgin. He who was going to consecrate
 8 17    |            is the sign? "Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear
 9 17    |       bear a son." Accordingly, a virgin did conceive and bear "Emmanuel,
10 17    |           dispensation in which a virgin was the medium. The earth
11 17    |          The earth was still in a virgin state, reduced as yet by
12 17    |           was while Eve was yet a virgin, that the ensnaring word
13 17    |          edifice of death. Into a virgin's soul, in like manner,
14 17    |      therefore sent down into the virgin's womb His Word, as the
15 18    |           before His birth of the virgin, He was able to have God
16 18    |          after He was born of the virgin, He was able to have a woman
17 18    |       that He should be born of a virgin, why should He not have
18 18    |          not have received of the virgin the body which He bore from
19 18    |       body which He bore from the virgin? Because, (forsooth) it
20 19    |        ACCORD, DESCENDED INTO THE VIRGIN'S WOMB.~What, then, is the
21 20    |              XX. CHRIST BORN OF A VIRGIN, OF HER SUBSTANCE. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL
22 20    |        that He was born through a virgin, not of" a virgin, and in
23 20    |       through a virgin, not of" a virgin, and in a womb, not of a
24 20    |         flesh which was made of a virgin We shall have also the support
25 20    |          Christ's being born of a virgin. It was simply this, that (
26 20    |           that (He was born) of a virgin in the real manner which
27 20    |         Christ, who was Himself a virgin, even in the flesh, in that
28 20    |          in that He was born of a virgin's flesh.~
29 21    |        BECOME FLESH EXCEPT IN THE VIRGIN'S WOMB AND OF HER SUBSTANCE.
30 21    |         should be no flesh of the virgin mother (assisting in the
31 21    | discussion. "Behold," says he, "a virgin shall conceive in the womb."
32 21    |    stultified. For in that case a virgin did not conceive, and did
33 21    |       also be subverted, that the virgin should "conceive in her
34 22    |           after step, to the very virgin, and at last introducing
35 22    |   producing Christ Himself of the virgin? Then, again, there is Paul,
36 23    |        give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear
37 23    |        and the parturition of the Virgin Mary, concerning which these
38 23    |        these sophists say: "She a virgin and yet not a virgin bare,
39 23    |        She a virgin and yet not a virgin bare, and yet did not bear;"
40 23    |        husband's seed; she was "a virgin," so far as (abstinence)
41 23    |      husband went, and "yet not a virgin," as regards her bearing
42 23    |         bear," she who was "not a virgin" was "yet a virgin," even
43 23    |          not a virgin" was "yet a virgin," even because she became
44 23    |            and although she was a virgin when she conceived, she
45 23    |        the womb in all cases. The virgin's womb, therefore, was especially
46 23    |         rather to be called not a virgin than a virgin, becoming
47 23    |        called not a virgin than a virgin, becoming a mother at a
48 23    |          of God was born not of a virgin, but "of a woman," he in
49 24    |       influence of Philumene, the virgin friend of Apelles. Surely
50 25conc|      having both been born of the virgin, and being human in its