Galatians 4:4
Douay-Rheims
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:
Tertullian
A certain person thought that he had cleverly solved this question: that Mary was called a woman by the angel and the apostle because she was already betrothed. For a betrothed is in some sense a bride. Yet between "in some sense" and "truly" there is a great distance.… He spoke of one who was a virgin and was called woman according to a proper usage of this term with respect to the basic quality of a virgin, which is therefore vindicated by the generic term woman.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on Gal 4:4 (ON THE VEILING OF VIRGINS 6)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.