The Ben. note
strongly objects to this slur upon the constancy of the faith of the
Blessed Virgin, and is sure that St. Basil’s error will not be
thus corrected without his own concurrence. It supposes this
interpretation of the passage in question to be derived from Origen,
Hom. xxvii. In Lucam, and refers to a list of
commentators who have followed him in Petavius, De Incar.
xiv. 1.