Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the fourteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: My reason for repeating the same thing again and again is to prevent him from raising a false issue and crying out that I have withheld such passages as make…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the thirteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: The last proposition of Helvidius was this, and it is what he wished to show when he treated of the first-born, that brethren of the Lord are mentioned in the…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the twelfth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Our position is this: Every only begotten son is a first-born son, but not every first-born is an only begotten. By first-born we understand not only one who is succeeded…

 Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the eleventh in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: An ample reply has now been given to what he advanced respecting the words before they came together, and he knew her not till she had brought forth a son.…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the tenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: If you are so contentious, your own thoughts shall now prove your master. You must not allow any time to intervene between delivery and intercourse. You must not say, “If…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the ninth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Helvidius will answer, “What you say, is in my opinion mere trifling. Your arguments are so much waste of time, and the discussion shows more subtlety than truth. Why could…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the eighth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: In short, what I want to know is why Joseph refrained until the day of her delivery? Helvidius will of course reply, because he heard the angel say, “that which…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the seventh in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: The word of God says in Genesis, “And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the sixth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Our reply is briefly this,—the words knew and till in the language of Holy Scripture are capable of a double meaning. As to the former, he himself gave us a…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the fifth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: This, however, is a point which will find its proper place further on. We must now hasten to other matters. The passage for discussion now is, “And Joseph arose from…