From: "Liam Too" 

On Mar 29, 10:21 am, r...{at}somis.org (·R L Measures) wrote:
> **  If everyone already knew, why announce such in 1545 ?

There's nothing wrong with that. Even every year if it needs to. Here are
some examples:

"He was the ark formed of incorruptible wood. For by this is signified
that His tabernacle was exempt from putridity and corruption."
Hippolytus, Orations Inillud, Dominus pascit me (ante A.D. 235).

"This Virgin Mother of the Only-begotten of God, is called Mary,
worthy of God, immaculate of the immaculate, one of the one." Origen,
Homily 1(A.D. 244).

"Let woman praise Her, the pure Mary." Ephraim, Hymns on the
Nativity, 15:23 (A.D. 370).

"Thou alone and thy Mother are in all things fair, there is no flaw in
thee and no stain in thy Mother." Ephraem, Nisibene Hymns, 27:8 (A.D.
370).

"O noble Virgin, truly you are greater than any other greatness. For
who is your equal in greatness, O dwelling place of God the Word? To whom
among all creatures shall I compare you, O Virgin? You are greater than
them all O Covenant, clothed with purity instead of gold! You are the Ark
in which is found the golden vessel containing the true manna, that is, the
flesh in which divinity resides." Athanasius, Homily of the Papyrus of
Turin, 71:216 (ante AD 373).

"Mary, a Virgin not only undefiled but a Virgin whom grace has made
inviolate, free of every stain of sin." Ambrose, Sermon 22:30 (A.D.
388).

"We must except the Holy Virgin Mary, concerning whom I wish to raise
no question when it touches the subject of sins, out of honour to the Lord;
for from Him we know what abundance of grace for overcoming sin in every
particular was conferred upon her who had the merit to conceive and bear
Him who undoubtedly had no sin." Augustine, Nature and Grace,4 2[36]
(A.D.415).

"As he formed her without my stain of her own, so He proceeded from
her contracting no stain." Proclus of Constantinople, Homily 1 (ante
A.D. 446).

"A virgin, innocent, spotless, free of all defect, untouched,
unsullied, holy in soul and body, like a lily sprouting among thorns."
Theodotus of Ancrya, Homily VI:11(ante A.D. 446).

"The angel took not the Virgin from Joseph, but gave her to Christ, to
whom she was pledged from Joseph, but gave her to Christ, to whom she was
pledged in the womb, when she was made." Peter Chrysologus, Sermon 140
(A.D. 449).

"[T]he very fact that God has elected her proves that none was ever
holier than Mary, if any stain had disfigured her soul, if any other virgin
had been purer and holier, God would have selected her and rejected
Mary." Jacob of Sarug (ante A.D. 521).

"She is born like the cherubim, she who is of a pure, immaculate
clay." Theotokos of Livias, Panegyric for the feast of the Assumption,
5:6 (ante A.D. 650).

"Today humanity, in all the radiance of her immaculate nobility,
receives its ancient beauty. The shame of sin had darkened the splendour
and attraction of human nature; but when the Mother of the Fair One par
excellence is born, this nature regains in her person its ancient
privileges and is fashioned according to a perfect model truly worthy of
God.... The reform of our nature begins today and the aged world, subjected
to a wholly divine transformation, receives the first fruits of the second
creation." Andrew of Crete, Sermon I, On the Birth of Mary (A.D. 733).

> **  Luke neither attended any of Jesus' lectures, met Jesus,
> or wrote the Gospel of Luke.

So you think that there only twelve?  Luke was one of the seventy
disciples.  Google "seventy disciples" and find out.

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