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...Protestant stand on the "brethren" of Jesus [May 23] is as amusing as it is illogical...
Carried to its proper conclusion, Our Lord would have come from a large family indeed, if we follow their interpretation that "brethren" signifies actual brothers and sisters: "Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep." (1 Corinthians...
Your article dealing with Jesus and His brethren is another crude example of how the Roman Catholic Church bases her questionable doctrines on weird assumptions and sinful speculations rather than on the revealed Word...
...they say to him, behold thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. And answering them, he said, Who is my mother and my brethren...
...Arguments. The Catholic answer is based on the fact that the word brother in general Semitic usage applies equally to stepbrothers, and is often extended to include other relatives. So, said the early Greek fathers. Christ's "brethren" were really Joseph's children by a former marriage; Latin fathers maintained that they were the Lord's cousins. The arguments: 1) Mary appears throughout the New Testament only as the mother of Jesus and no one else; 2) Mary's annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Luke 2:41) would have been an unlikely custom for a woman involved...