“Do you not know that when the male child is forty days old, he is presented at the altar to be purified, being impure from the conception itself, on account of both the paternal seed and the mother's womb? Thus every person is impure from his father and his mother, but only my Lord Jesus entered this life purely and w…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 12
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20Yea rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.
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18And great pleasure it is to have her friendship; and in the works of her hands are infinite riches; and in the exercise of conference with her, prudence; and in talking with her, a good report; I went about seeking how to take her to me.
19For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit.
— Wisdom of Solomon 8:20 —
21Nevertheless, when I perceived that I could not otherwise obtain her, except God gave her me; and that was a point of wisdom also to know whose gift she was; I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him, and with my whole heart I said,