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Breed|page= 237 |quote= Calvin was likewise less clear-cut than Luther on Mary's perpetual virginity but undoubtedly favored it. Notes in the Geneva Bible (Matt. 1:18, 25; Jesus' 'brothers') defend it, as did Zwingli and the English reformers, often on hazardous grounds (e.g., the established proof text of Ezek. 44:2, to rebut the charge of reliance on tradition instead of Scripture).}}</ref> In his commentary of Luke 1:34, he rejected as "unfounded and altogether absurd" the idea that Mary had made a
vow
of perpetual virginity, saying that "She would, in that case, have committed treachery by allowing herself to be united to a husband, and would have poured contempt on the holy covenant of marriage; which could not have been done without mockery of God" and adding that there is no evidence of the existence of such vows at the time.
[1]
Though
celibacy
or
abstinence
within marriage life was not unknown in
Jewish tradition
in response to God's command and participation in His service.
[2]
[3]
In the
Commentary on a Harmony of Matthew, Mark & Luke
, Calvin rejected the argument that Mary had other children due to the mention in Scripture of
brothers of Jesus
.
[4]
References
- ^
Calvin. "Commentary on Luke 1:34".
Harmony of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
vol. 1. Full statement: "The conjecture which some have drawn from these words ['How shall this be, since I know not a man?'], that she had formed a vow of perpetual virginity, is unfounded and altogether absurd. She would, in that case, have committed treachery by allowing herself to be united to a husband, and would have poured contempt on the holy covenant of marriage; which could not have been done without mockery of God. Although the Papists have exercised barbarous tyranny on this subject, yet they have never proceeded so far as to allow the wife to form a vow of continence at her own pleasure. Besides, it is an idle and unfounded supposition that a monastic life existed among the Jews."
- ^
Br. Anthony Opisso, M.D.,
Perpetual Virginity of Mary
, Association of Hebrew Catholics (retrieved from CIN)
- ^
Harvey McArthur (1987), "Celibacy in Judaism at the Time of Christian Beginnings",
Andrews University Seminary Studies
(PDF)
, Vol. 25, No. 2, Andrews University Press, p.?172
- ^
Harmony of Matthew, Mark & Luke, sec. 39 (Geneva, 1562), / From Calvin's Commentaries, tr. William Pringle, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1949: "The word brothers, we have formerly mentioned, is employed, agreeably to the Hebrew idiom, to denote any relatives whatever; and, accordingly, Helvidius displayed excessive ignorance in concluding that Mary must have had many sons, because Christ’s brothers are sometimes mentioned." (
vol. 2, p. 215
); [On Matt 1:25:] "The inference he [Helvidius] drew from it was, that Mary remained a virgin no longer than till her first birth, and that afterwards she had other children by her husband ... No just and well-grounded inference can be drawn from these words ... as to what took place after the birth of Christ. He is called 'first-born'; but it is for the sole purpose of informing us that he was born of a virgin ... What took place afterwards the historian does not inform us ... No man will obstinately keep up the argument, except from an extreme fondness for disputation." (vol. I, p. 107)
Reverting vandalism is 3RR exemption. While having another POV can be accepted, wholesale deletion of sourced information can't.
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