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The virgo Mary

. . . The point of the conception of Yashu’a (aka Jesus) being conceived of a virgin (Matthew 1:23) where it states: “Behold, a virgin (parthenos shall be with child.” The Greek word parthenos, under Strong’s Greek Dictionary #3933, means “of unknown origin; a maiden; by implication, an unmarried daughter:--virgin.” In a magazine entitled Nexus News Times, volume 5, no. 3, on page 20 states:

Our English-language gospels tells us that Jesus’ mother Mary was a virgin; and the word virgin was translated from the Greek initially but the Latin. That was because the Latin called her virgo. It didn’t mean the same thing at all. Virgo in Latin meant nothing more than a young woman. To have meant the same thing as virgin does not today, the Latin would have been virgo intacta, that is to say, “a young woman intact.”

Will be continued June 10.

Excerpted from The Bride Of Christ by Dr. Malachi Z. York