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(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),
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Verse 23. Every male opening the womb. [2] This translation is more conformable to the doctrine of the Fathers, that Christ was born without opening the womb; which Bede calls the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Witham.—See Exod. 13:2 and Numbers 8:16.
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