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1 1 | call the blessed Virgin Mother of God: and he decrees that
2 3,1| that as one who wounded his mother with a sword. Another because
3 3,1| call the holy Virgin, the Mother of God, not as if the nature
4 3,3| He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy
5 3,3| the daughter against her mother." For if faith be injured,
6 3,3| the bosom of his Virgin Mother, he filled all creation
7 3,3| reason we also call her Mother of God, not as if the nature
8 3,4| therefore the Holy Virgin is the Mother of God (Qeotokos), inasmuch
9 3,4| if anyone calls Mary the mother of God the Word, and not
10 3,4| the Word, and not rather mother of him who is Emmanuel;
11 3,4| who bare such an one is Mother of God. That Christ is God
12 3,4| qeikws(2) (divinely) as his mother was sarkikws (after the
13 3,4| be derived from Mary the Mother of God (ek ths Qeotokou
14 3,4| flesh was born of Mary, the Mother of God, so we say that he,
15 3,4| Thus Mary is properly the Mother of Christ (Christotocos)
16 3,4| Christotocos) but not the mother of God (Theotocos). Only
17 3,4| was truly and properly the Mother of our Saviour. And so is
18 3,4| she frequently styled the Mother of Jesus in the language
19 3,4| Elizabeth particularly the 'Mother of her Lord,' as also by
20 3,4| Virgin was plainly named the Mother of God." ~Pearson is mistaken
21 3,4| volume I have translated it "Mother of God," and I propose giving
22 3,4| and tiktein = to be the mother of a child. Now I have translated
23 3,4| the verbal part "to be the mother of a child" because "to
24 3,4| express it. ~Now the word Mother does necessarily express
25 3,4| can properly be called the Mother of God; this Nestorius denied
26 3,4| Nestorius's Christotocos by "Mother of Christ" and surely the
27 3,4| add: "especially Qeotokos, Mother of God, of the Virgin, Eccl." ~(
28 3,4| objection to the translation, "Mother of God." It is true that
29 3,4| Godhead that Mary is the Mother, but of the Incarnate Son,
30 3,4| Incarnate Son, who is God. "Mother" expresses exactly the relation
31 3,4| every child derives from its Mother that God the Son derived
32 3,4| perfect sense, Mary is the Mother of God the Son in his incarnation,
33 3,4| than any other earthly mother is of her son. ~I therefore
34 3,4| theological bias, can doubt that "Mother of God" is the most accurate
35 4 | Evangelist says, "When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph ...
36 6 | the orthodox watchword "Mother of God," and subsequently
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