and when the heavenly host had joined with him in the chorus "Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace among men of good will;
“and when he had seen just Simeon embrace the infant and exclaim, "Now
let thou thy servant depart, O Lord, according to thy word in peace:
for mine eyes have seen thy salvation;" and when he had seen Anna
the prophetess, the Magi, the Star, Herod, the angels; Helvidius, I say,
would have us believe that Joseph, though well acquainted with
such surprising wonders, dared to touch the temple of God, the abode of the Holy Ghost, the mother of his Lord? Mary at all events "kept all these sayings in her heart." You cannot for shame say Joseph did not know of them, for Luke tells us, "His father and mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning Him." And yet you with marvelous effrontery contend that the reading of the Greek manuscripts is corrupt, although it is that which nearly all the Greek writers have left us in their books, and not only so, but several of the Latin writers have taken the
words the same way. Nor need we now consider the variations in the
copies, since the whole record both of the Old and New Testament has
since that time been translated into Latin, and we must believe that the
water of the fountain flows purer than that of the stream.
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