"Unquestionably there is a mystery here and because of this, He appears not to acknowledge His Mother, from whom as the Bridgerrom He came forth, when He says to her, "Woman, what is to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come" (Jn. 2:4). What is the meaning of this? Did He come to the marriage in order to teach men to threat their mothers with contempt? Why, the man to whose marriage He had come was taking a wife with a view to having children. And surely he wished to be honored by the children that he would beget! Are we then to suppose that Jesus had come to the marriage in order to dishonor His Mother, when marriages are celebrated and wives are married with a view to having children, whom God commands to honor their parents? Unquestionably, brethren, there is some mystery here. And it is a matter of such importance that some have actually fallen into the error against which the Apostle has forewarned us to be on our guard. "I fear,", he said, "lest as the serpent] seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Cor. 11:3). These men set the gospel at naught and assert that Jesus was not born of the Virgin Mary. And to bolster their error, they would try to use this passage by way of support for their statement. "How could she be His Mother, to whom He said, 'Woman, what is to me and to thee?'""
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