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Lutherans agree dogmatically with Catholics and Orthodox on the perpetual virginity of Mary. As I’ve showed
Queen of Heaven:
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. (Revelation 12:1)
Mary here is wearing a Crown of Twelve Stars. As we saw in Joseph’s dream, the stars are a symbol of Israel. Mary is wearing the Crown of Israel. However, the New Israel is the people of the Church, the Kingdom of Heaven. Christ says:
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” (John 18:36)
The kingdom of New Israel is the kingdom of heaven. Thus, Mary is here presented as wearing the Crown of New Israel- she is the Queen of Heaven.
Another important fact is that Jesus is a king after the order of David- he is a Davidic king. Who were the queens of Davidic kings? Interestingly, it was not their wives. It was their mother. Consider this passage:
Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your here. {Jeremiah]
New Eve:
St. John writes:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3)
He opens by discussing the beginning of the world, opening with “in the beginning”. Remember that ancient Jews knew the Hebrew Bible from memory. They would immediately think of:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)
Further parallels are drawn:
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:4-5)
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. (Genesis 1:3-4)
Thus, John is writing to parallel the opening chapters of Genesis. He counts the days:
Start with one in John’s opening.
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)
Two.
The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples. (John 1:35)
Three.
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” (John 1:43)
Four.
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. (John 2:1)
Seven.
The wedding at Cana occurs on the seventh day. On the seventh day, Mary asks Him to do something:
When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” (John 2:3)
Jesus does a miracle:
When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom (John 2:9)
We know from the Scripture that Jesus is the New Adam:
What does Eve do to Adam on the seventh day?
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. (Genesis 3:6)
On the seventh day after the opening of Genesis, Eve entices Adam to commit his first sin. On the seventh day after the opening of John, who is drawing our minds back to Genesis, Mary entices the New Adam to perform His first miracle. The conclusion is clear: Mary is the New Eve. One can consider also Mary’s obedience to Gabriel vs. Eve’s obedience to Satan:
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4-5)
So, Eve obeys the evil angel Satan, who entices her to bring death into the world.
And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. {Luke 1:30}
Jesus is the Life. Mary consents to the message of the good angel, Gabriel, in bringing Life into the world. Eve consents to the message of the evil angel, Satan, in bringing death into the world. It is clear what the Bible is doing. Mary is clearly the New Eve.
Most Holy
Orthodox Christians believe that by the grace of God, Mary was preserved from the stain of personal sin. We believe that she, in part because of this, is exalted above all the holy angels. What is the evidence for this? Most of it derives from Luke 1:28.
And he came to her and said, “Hail” (Luke 1:28)
Ever-Virgin
Finally, Orthodox Christians believe that Mary remained a virgin all of her life. The traditional Orthodox position is that the “brothers of Jesus” were actually step-brothers from Joseph’s earlier marriage (he was a widower). Does this position find any support in Scripture? Yes! Let us first address the two indications put forward by Protestants that Mary did not remain a virgin.
Does it ever say that these other children are the children of Mary? No, it says that they are the “brothers of Jesus”. Could this mean stepbrothers? Yes, it could, unless you want to argue that Joseph was actually Jesus’ blood father.
PAX!
but nothing is said to the Catholics .