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- By "take Mary as your wife" the angel is referring to the second stage of the Jewish marriage ritual that saw the bride move into the husband's house. The Greek, and the content of the rest of the chapter, makes clear that take is not a euphemism for sexual relations.
- please remember to take each passage in context.
- According to Saint Remigius, because Joseph was considering to put Mary away secretly, which if he had done, there would have been those who would have thought her to be a harlot and not a virgin, therefore this purpose of Joseph was changed through Divine revelation, and so it is said, "While he thought on these things."
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