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The Too Long; Didn't Read Version of Wishful Exegesis, Jephthah's daughter edition
In case you don’t have time or interest in reading the more complete response (here), here’s a nearly twitter length response to the false claim that Luke quoted verbatim from Judges 11. 1. Luke was Quoting Mary Luke 1:39 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?…
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Wishful Exegesis – Jephthah's Daughter and Mary Example
There was a rather glaring error repeated over and over again in the recent debate on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. I don’t think it was a lie: I think the debaters believed their own book, which makes the same mistake over and over. The error arises from the hermeneutical principle of wishful exegesis. Many…
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Response to Jerome's Response to Helvidius – Part 24
Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary. This post is the twenty-fourth (and final!) in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: I have become rhetorical, and have disported myself a little like a platform orator. You compelled me, Helvidius; for, brightly as the Gospel shines at the present day,…
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Response to Jerome's Response to Helvidius – Part 23
Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary. This post is the twenty-third in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: I do not deny that holy women are found both among widows and those who have husbands; but they are such as have ceased to be wives, or such as,…
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Response to Jerome's Response to Helvidius – Part 22
Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary. This post is the twenty-second in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: And now that I am about to institute a comparison between virginity and marriage, I beseech my readers not to suppose that in praising virginity I have in the least…
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Response to Jerome's Response to Helvidius – Part 21
Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary. This post is the twenty-first in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: But as we do not deny what is written, so we do reject what is not written. We believe that God was born of the Virgin, because we read it.…
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Response to Jerome's Response to Helvidius – Part 20
Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary. This post is the twentieth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: I now direct the attack against the passage in which, wishing to show your cleverness, you institute a comparison between virginity and marriage. I could not forbear smiling, and I…
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Response to Jerome's Response to Helvidius – Part 19
Jerome wrote a response to Helvidius regarding the virginity of Mary. This post is the nineteenth in a series of responses to what Jerome wrote. Jerome wrote: Now that I have cleared the rocks and shoals I must spread sail and make all speed to reach his epilogue. Feeling himself to be a smatterer, he there produces…
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Response to Jerome's Response to Helvidius – Part 18
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…
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Response to Jerome's Response to Helvidius – Part 17
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…