By Dr. Jeff Mirus (bio - articles - email) | Jan 09, 2017
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In a bizarre post by the standards of First Things, Peter J. Leithart attempts to explain the meaning of St. Matthew’s statement that Joseph “took his wife, but knew her not until she had borne a son.” Leithart, who is a minister in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, takes the position that Mary’s womb was a sacred space while Christ was present there. Since sexual relations rendered a person unclean under Jewish law, Joseph refrained from sexual relations with Mary for those nine months, but no longer.
Protestants generally reject the perpetual virginity of Mary, but it is nothing short of astonishing for a scholar to suggest that such a conclusion is required by the gospel text.
See: http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1441
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