Chapter

 1 3 |  betrothed, not intrusted as you say, and of course the only
 2 4 |        not intrusted, that is to say, not yet a wife, not yet
 3 4 |        if, supposing a person to say, “Before dining in harbour
 4 4 |          harbour. If I choose to say, “the apostle Paul before
 5 4 |         not a virgin, that is to say, the word is Almah, not
 6 8 |       because he heard the angel say, 4189 “that which is conceived
 7 8 |          had certainly heard him say, 4190 “Joseph, thou son
 8 8 |         the angels; Helvidius, I say, would have us believe that
 9 8 |     heart.” You cannot for shame say Joseph did not know of them,
10 9 | Helvidius will answer, “What you say, is in my opinion mere trifling.
11 9 |          Why could not Scripture say, as it said of Thamar and
12 10|        intercourse. You must not say, 4197 “If a woman conceive
13 12|        priest. I might reply and say, Why do you tie me down
14 15|         its own destruction! You say that the mother of the Lord
15 15|        present at the cross, you say that she was entrusted to
16 15|         alone displease you. You say in passing that she was
17 16|         I know you would like to say you have been overcome not
18 17|          general relationship. I say spiritual because all of
19 17|          Go unto my brethren and say to them.” I say also general,
20 17|     brethren and say to them.” I say also general, because we
21 17|          brethren by nature, you say. But Scripture does not
22 17|           But Scripture does not say so; it calls them neither
23 17|          nor of Joseph. Shall we say they are brethren by race?
24 17|        the mother’s,” that is to say, she was the daughter of
25 17|        Otherwise, what are we to say of Abraham, a just man,
26 18|          chorus of the Jews, you say, 4239 “Is not this the carpenter’
27 18|          every book you write. I say not a word about your absurd
28 18|          you will not venture to say that. Was he His reputed
29 19|        Petavium. Of Tertullian I say no more than that he did
30 19|       have explained, that is to say, brethren in point of kinship
31 21|        do not read it. Nor do we say this to condemn marriage,
32 21|     audacity not from piety. You say that Mary did not continue
33 22|     those of the New, that is to say, those who had wives and
34 23|       the face of nature, and to say in other words, I want you
35 23|         agree with you, when you say, that some virgins are nothing
36 23|      nothing but tavern women; I say still more, that even adulteresses