Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
And therefore, in that contemptible body, so to speak, “You prevailed by reason of the blessing of breasts and womb, the blessings of your father and mother.” Jacob spoke of the breasts, or the two Testaments, in one of which Christ was foretold and in the other revealed. And he did well to say “breasts,” because the Son nurtured us and offered us to the Father as people nourished on a kind of spiritual milk. Or else he is speaking of Mary’s breasts, which were truly blessed, for with them the holy Virgin gave milk to drink to the people of the Lord. This is the reason the woman in the Gospel says, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you.”
