25. For it became Him who is most pure, and
a teacher of purity, to have come forth from a pure
bride-chamber. For if he who well fulfils the office of a priest
of Jesus abstains from a wife, how should Jesus Himself be born of man
and woman? For thou, saith He in the Psalms, art He
that took Me out of the womb Ps. xxii. 9.. Mark
that carefully, He that took Me out of the womb, signifying that He was
begotten without man, being taken from a virgin’s womb and
flesh. For the manner is different with those who are begotten
according to the course of marriage.