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Biblical studies on Mary’s life, role, and significance in salvation history.
EPIPHANIUS ON THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY Paid Members Public
In this post I shall share Epiphanius’ somewhat lengthy comment where he alludes to the blessed Mother’s assumption by likening her to Elijah, in the context of condemning a heretical group called the Collyridians who had deified Mary and offered sacrificed to her as a goddess. The readers will
CHRISTIAN COMMENTARY ON THE QURAN: Q. 19 Paid Members Public
19:2: A mention (in the Book) of your Lord’s mercy to His servant Zachariah, His servant Zachariah. Here we find a repetition of the stories of John the Baptist and Jesus, albeit with major differences and even contradictions with the version found in Q. 3:33-59. The fact
MARY: ISRAEL PERSONIFIED Paid Members Public
The Holy Bible depicts our Lord’s blessed mother as typifying or personifying the nation of Israel by taking language, which is reminiscent to the way the Hebrew Scriptures portray God’s people, and ascribing it to her. For instance, the nation is collectively addressed as the virgin daughter of
MARY AS QUEEN MOTHER Paid Members Public
A BIBLICAL CASE FOR MARIAN VENERATION According to the Hebrew Bible, the mother of the Israelite king was given the status of queen mother. In other words, the [O]ld [T]estament shows that it wasn’t the wife of the king that was the queen but rather his mother:
PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 3 Paid Members Public
We now come to the final section of this lengthy paper: PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 2. St. Prudentius (d. after 405) Our next witness is from Spain. In a section of his poem Cathemerinon, St. Prudentius tells the story of Gen. 3. In regard to verses 14-15,
PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 2 Paid Members Public
We continue from where we left off: PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 1. St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (d. 397) St. Ambrose of Milan is an excellent witness of the Western Church in matters Mariological. What is his opinion about the First-gospel? Some nine passages have been discovered
PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 2 Paid Members Public
answeringislamblog 4 days ago We continue from where we left off: PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 1. St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (d. 397) St. Ambrose of Milan is an excellent witness of the Western Church in matters Mariological. What is his opinion about the First-gospel? Some nine
PATRISTIC INTERPRETATION OF GEN. 3:15 PT. 1 Paid Members Public
Rev. Dominic J. Unger, OFM Cap The investigation to be undertaken in this paper is purposely restricted to those ancient Christian writers who, at least implicitly, interpreted the First-gospel (Gen. 3, 15) of Our Blessed Lady. Was there a tradition among these early writers to the effect that, in the