“After the banishment from paradise and the loss of immortal life, Adam knew his wife, and thus carnal relations were introduced, this mixture of emissions that is more appropriate to animals than to human beings endowed with intellect and that is the foreboding of corruption and death, though it assures the continuanc…”
Severus of Antioch, 6th c. — CATHEDRAL HOMILIES 7:10-12
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2And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.
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1I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,
— Wisdom of Solomon 7:2 —
3And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
4I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and that with cares.