Origen, on Luke 1:26

“And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth,”

“For if she had had no husband, soon would the thought have stolen into the Devil’s mind, how she who had known no man could be pregnant. It was right that the conception should be Divine, something more exalted than human nature.”

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