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To: Mrs. Don-o
First, how do you know what had been agreed between Mary and Joseph beforehand, what was in their ketubah?

Oh; I'd say about the same way you do...

GUESSING.

ASSUMING..

Hoping...


226 posted on 05/30/2016 11:32:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Since neither of us saw the ketubah....

Then you have to go by other reasonable evidence. I submit that when Hannah, Sarah, and Samson's Mom were told of their upcoming miraculous pregnancies, they all assumed that it was by their respective husbands that they'd get pregnant.

Mary doesn't assume that.

She's like that hypothetical bride-to-be at the bridal shower saying, astonished, "Babies? But how shall this be, since I know not man?" Either this bride-to-be doesn't know that the usual baby-making union with the husband is usually expected of the usual wife, OR --- the only other possibility --- she in no way expects to the the usual wife. There must be a reason why.

232 posted on 05/30/2016 11:42:46 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (O Mary, He whom the whole Universe cannot contain, enclosed Himself in your womb and was made man.)
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