Luke 1:26
Douay-Rheims
And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth,
Augustine of Hippo
(de san. Virg. cap. vi.) To a virgin, for Christ could be born from virginity alone, seeing He could not have an equal in His birth. It was necessary for our Head by this mighty miracle to be born according to the flesh of a virgin, that He might signify that his members were to be born in the spirit of a virgin Church.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:26-27
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.