“Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel.” Here we have: 1. A virgin will conceive. This is uncontested by all here. 2. A virgin will bear a son, implying as St. Augustine says, “A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin ...
Yet this is not the situation David was in. Absalom did not simply walk away from the faith of his father, but he became David’s enemy, his greatest threat, a betrayer of the most heinous type, holding the very heart of the king in his hands, squeezing the life out of it. David ...
But I think more often God is sad about what we’ve done or said. That was certainly the case when he saw man’s wickedness and decided to flood the earth, then start over with Noah’s family.“The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth and his heart was filled with...
For this phrase we also allege for proof of the community of essence, because the name of Son’ shows the community of nature to be equal in both cases. For as He is called the Son of Man by reason of the kindred of His flesh to her of whom He was born, so also He is conceived...
“The virgin shall be with child and bear a son and call his name Emmanuel.”8“You are precious in my sight, you are beautiful, and I love you.”9“Though the mountains leave their place and the hills be shaken my love will never leave you.”10“Can a mother forget her children?