--- Donald Jacob Uitvlugt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > You
will want also to look at commentaries, sermons, and other works
> that
> make use of Matthew 12, 46-50 and the parallels (Mark 3, 31-35 and
> Luke 8,
> 19-21). It was these passages that provided the basis for the image
> of
> conceiving Christ, an image that is at least as old as Bernard of
> Clairvaux's homilies on the Nativity.
>
> Hope that this is helpful...
Indeed it is. The idea of conceiving Christ is quite familiar; I have
used it in my own sermons, but did not answer before now because I
couldn't put my finger on where exactly I had come across it. But I
have half an idea that I've read it in St Bernard, if nowhere else.
Bill.
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