Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
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Theophylact of Ochrid
AD 1107
Behold a wakeful, vigilant soul who immediately obeyed.
The evangelist continually calls her "the wife of Joseph" to allay evil suspicion and to show that she was not anyone else’s wife but his.
