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>From: "Gordon Plumb" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 4:51:42 AM
>Subject: Re: [M-R] St Joseph, husband of the BVM
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>The gospel of Matthew tells us that Joseph, following the angelic dream " took
>her as his wife, but he had no marital relations with her until she had born a
>son." The presumption must be that, at least in the understanding of the author of Matthew, they thereafter had a normal sexual relationship (and presumably children?).
I'm not entirely sure that follows, does it? If I say that my father and I quarreled on my thirteenth birthday, and that we spoke no more until I moved out of his house, does it follow that thereafter we had a normal family relationship? Or is the implication that, having not spoken when we were together, we certainly didn't speak when we were apart? I don't know.
Robert Kirby
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