"Behold the world! To it were given two eyes;Eve was the left eye, the blind eye; the right eye, the luminous eye, is Mary. Because of the eye that grew dark, the whole world became dark.Then men, groping in the shadows,will consider every stone on which they stumble to be a god.They have called lies... Continue Reading →
"Just as their very bodies have sinned and died, and as the earth, their mother is cursed (cf. Gen 3:17-19), so because of this body which is the incorruptible church, his earth is blessed from the beginning. This earth is Mary's body, the temple in which a seed has been deposited. Observe the angel who... Continue Reading →
"Let us now see whether the apostle also restricts the term to the same meaning it has in Genesis, which applies it to the female sex (cf. Gen 2:23), when he calls the Virgin Mary "woman" (Gal 4:4), just as Genesis called Eve "woman". Writing to the Galatians, he says, "God sent his Son, born... Continue Reading →
"First of all, we need to show the reason why the Son of God had to be born of a Virgin. The initiator of a new birth had to be born in a new way, and Isaiah had predicted that the Lord would give a sign of this. What is that sign? "Behold, the virgin shall conceive in her... Continue Reading →
"Eve was seduced by the word of the [fallen] angel and transgressed God's word so that she fled from Him. In the same way, [Mary] was evangelised by the word of an angel and obeyed God's word, so that she carried Him [within her]. And while the former was seduced into disobeying God, the latter was persuaded to obey... Continue Reading →
"The apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, clearly states that "God sent His Son, born of a woman" (Gal 4:4). And in his letter to the Romans, he says, "His Son, born of David's seed according to the flesh, constituted Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness that raised... Continue Reading →
"[The Son of God] became man through a Virgin, so that the disobedience caused by the serpent might be destroyed in the same way it had begun. For Eve, who was virgin and undefiled, gave birth to disobedience and death after listening to the serpent's words. But the Virgin Mary conceived faith and joy; for... Continue Reading →
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