[Kolokotronis]

""Which greek word would you use to describe your very own brother from your very own shared biological mother?""

Αδελφος

"Also for the sake of clarity...this truly is the first time ever in my entire life that I've encountered the teaching that Mary did not physically deliver Christ through her birth canal. I think it is for a lot of us."

New for me too, Padre. I've never heard such a foolish thing. But that isn't what αειπαρθενος means or even implies. It means ever virgin in the sense that she never "knew" a man.

[xzins]

Yeah, but that's what's being presented here. You can read backward and see it presented.

I've always taken it to mean that she didn't ever have sex.

I'm being told that I'm wrong.

BTW, if adelphos is brother, then the literal sense of "brother" is one that must be investigated.

[kosta50]

xzins: this truly is the first time ever in my entire life that I've encountered the teaching that Mary did not physically deliver Christ through her birth canal

Kolokotronis: New for me too, Padre. I've never heard such a foolish thing

You have been taught that Thetokos delivered thrugh a birth canal?

[bornacatholic]

St. Gregory Nyssa teaches Mary gave birth without pain. See Catena Aurea Luke, Chapter 1