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The only time Saint Paul mentions the Virgin Mary is “in passing” and without even naming her:
“When the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman…”
(Galatians 4, 4) .
This may seem like very little!
Yet that says a lot.
Let us first consider this moment in history chosen by God to send his Son.
Saint Paul sees this time as a fullness;
what does that mean?
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Tradition is twofold on this subject.
Starting from Saint Irenaeus and Origen, a line of interpretation that can be said to be
optimistic emerges:
the moment of the Incarnation comes at the apogee of divine pedagogy.
Humanity, and for it the Chosen People, has been progressively enlightened by the more and more precise revelation which goes from the patriarchs to Moses...
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