26.  And from such members He is not ashamed to assume flesh, who is the framer of those very members.  But then who telleth us this?  The Lord saith unto Jeremiah:  Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee:  and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee Jer. i. 5..  If, then, in fashioning man He was not ashamed of the contact, was He ashamed in fashioning for His own sake the holy Flesh, the veil of His Godhead?  It is God who even now creates the children in the womb, as it is written in Job, Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?  Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast knit me together with bones and sinews Job x. 10, 11..  There is nothing polluted in the human frame except a man defile this with fornication and adultery.  He who formed Adam formed Eve also, and male and female were formed by God’s hands.  None of the members of the body as formed from the beginning is polluted.  Let the mouths of all heretics be stopped who slander their bodies, or rather Him who formed them.  But let us remember Paul’s saying, Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost which is in you 1 Cor. vi. 19.?  And again the Prophet hath spoken before in the person of Jesus, My flesh is from them Hos. ix. 12.  R.V. Woe also to them, when I depart from them.  The Seventy mistook ירִוּשֹבְּ, “at my departure,” for ירְשָֹבִּ, “my flesh.”:  and in another place it is written, Therefore will He give them up, until the time that she bringeth forth Mic. v. 3..  And what is the sign?  He tells us in what follows, She shall bring forth, and the remnant of their brethren shall return.  And what are the nuptial pledges of the Virgin, the holy bride?  And I will betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness Hos. ii. 20..  And Elizabeth, talking with Mary, speaks in like manner:  And blessed is she that believed; for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord Luke i. 45..