(October 12, 2023 at 4:01 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, the interpretation St. Jerome went with is that, it would have to have two possible meanings: either the phrase “they did not have sex until she gave birth to a [firstborn] son” does not preclude Mary staying a virgin (note that even an only child is still technically a firstborn), or that this meant that Joseph would have had to have seen Mary, blood-soaked, exhausted, and covered with all the viscera and effluvia that comes from childbirth (and he gives a pretty graphic description) and decided to fuck her immediately.
No, this is not a good counter argument, but it’s what they have.
Doesn’t say a lot for God’s choice of a stepfather, does it?
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
