Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the eighteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: There are things which, in your extreme ignorance, you had never read, and therefore you neglected the whole range of Scripture and employed your madness in outraging the Virgin, like…

  Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the seventeenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Innumerable instances of the same kind are to be found in the sacred books. But, to be brief, I will return to the last of the four classes of…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the sixteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Now here we have the explanation of what I am endeavouring to show, how it is that the sons of Mary, the sister of our Lord’s mother, who though not…

Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary.  This post is the fifteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: What darkness, what raging madness rushing to its own destruction! You say that the mother of the Lord was present at the cross, you say that she was entrusted to…

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…