George Bounacos

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In the centuries which followed, Christians went further, coming to insist that Jesus’s mother remained a virgin throughout her life. A proclamation of Mary’s perpetual virginity meant commentators clumsily making the best that they could of clear references in the biblical text to Jesus’s brothers and sisters, who were certainly not conceived by the Holy Spirit
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
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