No Excuses
The Incarnation of Chist
and died. As GOD, he created all things, governs all, worked the most stupendous miracles; is omniscient, omnipresent, and is the Judge, as well as the Maker, of the whole human race. As God and man, combined in one person, he suffered for man, died for man, rose again for man; causes repentance and remission of
The church fathers do not write extensively about Mary’s virginity (perpetual or otherwise), referring to it only in passing in letters, sermons, and other genres. It was only when challenged in the writings of Helvidius (fourth century) that Jerome (c. 345–420) offered the first book-length treatment of the subject. The patristic authors (such as Ignatius of Antioch [c. 35-c. 107]) are far more interested in asserting and defending the reality of Mary’s maternity because of the gnostic opposition to this fact. She
