virginity of Mary and her childbearing and also of the death
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of the so-called intellectuals? 2 The fact is, our God Jesus Christ was conceived by Mary according to God's dispensation of the seed of David,** it is true, but also of the Holy
Spirit. He was born and was baptized, that by His Passion *° He might consecrate the water.
19. And the Prince of this world was in ignorance of the virginity of Mary and her childbearing and also of the death of the Lord—three mysteries loudly proclaimed to the world, though accomplished in the stillness of God! ** 2 How, then, were they revealed to the ages? A star blazed forth in the sky, outshining all the other stars, and its light was indescribable, and its novelty provoked wonderment, and all the starry orbs, with the sun and the moon, formed a choir round that star; but its light exceeded that of all the rest, and there was perplexity as to the cause of the unparalleled novelty.
3 This was the reason why every form of magic began to be destroyed, every malignant spell to be broken, ignorance to be dethroned, an ancient empire to be overthrown—God was making His appearance in human form to mold the newness *" of eternal life! Then at length was ushered in what
God had prepared in His counsels; then all the world was in an upheaval because the destruction of death was being prosecuted.
20. If Jesus Christ, yielding to your prayer, grants me the favor and it is His will, I shall, in the subsequent letter which I intend to write to you, still further explain the dispensation which I have here only touched upon, regarding the New
Man Jesus Christ—a dispensation founded on faith in Him and love for Him, on His Passion and Resurrection. 2 I will do so especially if the Lord should reveal to me that you—the entire community of you! ""—are in the habit, through grace