Yes.
Maybe.
Depends if they really thought she was perpetually virgin.
And if they did, it’s irrelevant because that’s not what Scripture teaches.
Would you like the verses posted again that reference the brothers and sisters of Jesus?
I for one don’t think it’s a bad thing for a wife to have sex with her husband. It’s not a sin. it’s not impure. It’s not beneath someone.
God created sex for both procreation and unity and it was intended for mankind before Adam and Eve fell. If sex were that bad for sinless people, the human race would have stayed at two.
For the Clauds of the world, tradition trumps the Scriptures ...
The Greek Fathers were looking at the exact same Scriptures as you and had all the same verses you could cite with the “brothers of the Lord” and “until she gave birth” and “firstborn” and all that.
There isn’t a single verse that was added to the Scripture from their day to ours.
The only difference is that they spoke Greek natively and you and I don’t.
Also, no one is saying that marital sex is bad. But the High Priest had to abstain from any relations with his wife an entire week before entering the Holy of Holies.
So now St. Joseph, knowing this as a devout Jew, is told by an angel that God would now be dwelling *in his own house*. Those rooms, that whole dwelling was now more holy than the innermost sanctum of the Temple! And Joseph couldn’t just visit it once a year either. From the day Joseph took Our Lady in till the day he died, he was dwelling in the direct presence of God continually. Does it seem credible that the High Priest would know his wife carnally in the Holy of Holies?
You have to look at this all as Joseph in his culture would have looked at it, not as we in our culture can piece together from a concordance and a dictionary.