Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, decided to put her away privately.
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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
He beheld her to be with child, whom he knew to be chaste; and because he had read, “There shall come a Rod out of the stem of Jesse,” of which he knew that Mary was come , and had also read, “Behold, a virgin shall conceive,” he did not doubt that this prophecy should be fulfilled inher.
