To: xzins; P-Marlowe; annalex; blue-duncan; Dr. Eckleburg; BibChr; Calvinist_Dark_Lord
""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.
660 posted on
12/07/2006 5:50:49 PM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: Kolokotronis; wagglebee; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; adiaireton8; xzins; P-Marlowe
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.
663 posted on
12/07/2006 5:56:09 PM PST by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
To: Kolokotronis; xzins
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?
688 posted on
12/07/2006 7:38:07 PM PST by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: Kolokotronis
St. Gregory Nyssa teaches Mary gave birth without pain. See Catena Aurea Luke, Chapter 1
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