Ante-Nicene Christian Library; Translations Of The Writings Of The Fathers Down To A.D. 325, Volume 16: Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, And Revelations

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to God, and placed the insant, Mary by name, in the communityos virgins, in Which the virgins remalaed day and night pressing

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templo themselves Wonderest

Demetri , etc.

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untit iners appeared to her the angel of tho Loes, smin Wh ohand sho used to receive laod; and thus sile became more and moro perfeci in the work os God. Then, When the older viri rested stom the pruises of God, sho did not rest at ali; so that in the presses and vigila os God none mero found buforo herino one more loamed in the wisdom os the law os God, morelowly in humility, more elegant in singing, more perfeci in all

mother.

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should abido in the temple of God, they seli upon the plan offending a heresd thmura an the tribes os Israel, that on thethird day nil should come together into the temple os tho Lord And when ali the pei ple had come together, Abiathar the high

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Who migus stom generation to generation. CI P. 10. bile these things Were doing, Joseph mas occu-pied With liis Work, ho e-building, in the districis by the se aliore; sor he Was a carpenter. And after nine monita hecame bach to his house, and Dund Mary pregnant. Where-

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en mas asse led a multitude of peopte Whieli could notbe numbered, and Mary Was brought to the templo. d theprimis, and her relatives, and her parenis Wepi, and said toMisy: Confess to the priesis thy sin, thou that mast liue adove in the temple os God, and didst receive laod iram thetanta os an anget. And again Joseph Was summoned to the altar, and tho mater of Miniung of the Lord Was oven him to

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driis. And π n. any ono that had Ilad drank this mater, and malaad seven times mund the altar, God used to a W mmeaim in his sace. men, therelare, Joseph had drank in sue , and had waruod mund tho altar seven times, no sim os sinappe in in him. Then au the primis, and the ossicera, and the peoplo justified him, sanng: Blessed are thou, Meing that

no chargo has Meu Mund good against theo. And they summoned Mary, and said: And What excuso canat thou liaver orWhat greater sim can appear in thee than the conception ostiis Worub, Whicli Mimys thee y Tliis oesy me require of thee, that since Joseph is pure regarding thee, thou consess Who it

and walhed round the altar severi times, and no spol mas found in her.