To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
For to none of men was the universal aggregation of spiritual credentials appropriate, except to Christ; paralleled as He is to a "flower "by reason of glory, by reason of grace; but accounted "of the root of Jesse "whence His origin is to be deduced,-to wit, through Mary.
