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¶ 488

"God sent Forth his Son", but to prepare a body for him, 125 he wanted the free co-operation of a Creature. For this, from all eternity God chose for the mother of his Son a daughter of Israel, a young Jewish Woman of Nazareth in Galilee, "a Virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary": 126

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