{"id":12097,"date":"2022-12-23T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12097"},"modified":"2022-12-20T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:12:01","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-23-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12097","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since he thus related that Christ was born from Mary as a virgin and not as a result of intercourse with Joseph, for what reason does Matthew call him his father, if not because we understand Joseph to be truly the husband of \u00a0Mary, not through intercourse of the flesh but in virtue of the genuine spiritual union of \u00a0marriage?\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(St Augustine, &#8216;Gospel Harmony&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12098\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ch7-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ch7-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ch7.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since he thus related that Christ was born from Mary as a virgin and not as a result of intercourse with Joseph, for what reason does Matthew call him his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12099,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions\/12099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}