And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
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Bede
AD 735
birth: The Church, in a spiritual sense, both brings forth those with whom it travails, and ceases not to travail with them when already born. As she herself says, "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you."