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(Spotless virgin, etc. p. 223 and note 7.)

Oh that "foolish and unlearned questions" had been avoided, as the Scripture [^2177] bids! Surely, we should be as decent about the conjugal relations of the Blessed Virgin as we are socially in all such matters. Pearson, as in the note, says all that should be said on such a subject. Photius, in his thirtieth epistle, expounds the text Matt. i. 25. But it did not rest there. Let it rest here.