The Virgin Birth

+St. Jerome

Letter to Parmmachius

Christ is a virgin, and the Mother of our Virgin is herself ever a virgin; she is Mother and Virgin. Although the doors were shut, Jesus entered within; in the sepulcher that was Mary, which was new and hewn in hardest rock, no one either before or afterwards was laid. She is a "garden enclosed, a fountain sealed" (Cant. 4:12) .... She is the Eastern gate, whereof Ezekiel speaks, always shut and full of light, which closing on itself brings forth from itself the Holy of Holies; whereby the Sun of Justice, and our High Priest, according to the order of Melchizedek, enters in and goes out. Let them tell me how Jesus entered [the Cenacle] when the doors were shut...and I will tell them how holy Mary is both Mother and Virgin, Virgin after childbirth, and Virgin before she was Married.

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Author

AB-Philosophy undergraduate at Notre Dame of Marbel University.