But that you may learn more plainly that even a virgin is called in Holy Scripture a “damsel,” hear the Book of the Kings, speaking of Abishag the Shunamite, And the damsel was very fair 1 Kings i. 4.  Cyril’s argument is fully justified by the actual usage of “Almah,” which certainly refers to unmarried women in Gen. xxiv. 43; Ex. ii. 8; Cant. i. 3.  The same is probably the meaning in Ps. lxviii. 25:  “in the midst were the damsels playing with the timbrels.”  There is no passage in which the word can be shewn to mean a married woman.:  for that as a virgin she was chosen and brought to David is admitted.