In Homily V. 4, he maintains her perpetual virginity; “how then, you will say, are James and others called His brethren? In the same way as Joseph himself too was considered the Husband of Mary.” This is at least consistent with the explanation given in the spurious Homilies “on the Annunciation,” Ben. t. ii. p. 797. And “on the women bearing spices” t. ii. p. 159, Appendix, that she was the step-mother of James. Theodoret, on Gal. i. 19, rejects this view and makes them sons of Cleopas by her sister.