My name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord Almighty.’ What do you
answer to that? Open your eyes at last, then, any time, and see, from the rising of
the sun to its setting, the sacrifice of Christians is offered, not in one place only, as
was established with you Jews, but everywhere; and not to just any god at all, but
to Him who foretold it, the God of Israel…Not in one place, as was prescribed for
you in the earthly Jerusalem, but in every place, even in Jerusalem herself. Not
according to the order of Aaron, but according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Heresies (428 AD):
82
“He (Jovinian) destroyed the virginity of Mary, saying that it was lost by her
parturition. He equated the merits of chaste spouses and of the faithful with the
virginity of consecrated women and the continence of the male sex in holy persons
choosing a celibate life.”
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