Mary Holy
Mary Holy
How old was Mary when she was impregnated with the holy spirit?
many chrisitian scholars say Mary was around 12 when she became pregnant.
Catholic Encyclopedia gives the age of 12-14.
"oxford dictionary bible" commentary also says that Mary was 12.
hope this helped!
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Joseph was in a very difficult position. How could this have happened, that his betrothed should become pregnant before their marriage had properly taken place? What would people think? In those times, the stakes involved considerably more than some social embarrassment and loss of face. By the law codes of that time and place (Deuteronomy 22:20, 21), it was very possible that Mary could have been condemned as an adulteress, taken out to a public place, stripped, and stoned to death by the mob.
In fact, Joseph may well have been under some pressure, as a responsible adult male, to uphold the laws and traditions, to make an example of Mary, so that other young girls would think twice before showing up pregnant.
This was largely up to Joseph and what he decided to do about this unexpected pregnancy. Back then, that was the way things were. Clearly, Joseph cared about this particular, vulnerable young girl enough that he couldn't bear to see her life end in such an "example" to others.
But, what would people think? If he ignored this shame on his own honor, how could he hold his head up in town? He had another option: he could "dismiss her quietly" (Matthew 1:19, NRSV). While this was not a death sentence, realistically, it was a sentence to a life of wandering and destitution for Mary. No one would want to marry her, with a child born out of wedlock. She would be "damaged goods" in a society where there was no safety net for such women. She would be - terrifyingly - on her own. The best she could hope for would be a life of servitude in someone else's home.
"What would people think?" - In Buddhist tradition, one of the three temptations the Buddha resisted was social obligation, and what we would now call "public opinion." When we resist the calling of the Holy Spirit in our lives because we think people will be outraged or scandalized by our behavior, we are succumbing to this temptation.
In Eastern Orthodox icons of the Nativity, there is often a small scene depicted in the lower left corner: Joseph, sitting and glumly listening to a man talking to him. Sometimes, the iconographer depicts this man with some sinister-looking attributes, and sometimes just with the kind of expression one might see on one of the town's gossips. Other times, the artist portrays this character as an imp, or a small devil. He represents this temptation, of social obligation and public opinion, that Joseph was feeling pressured by: "What will people think?"
This Joseph would have known the words of Psalm 80, with its sadness: "You make us the scorn of our neighbors; our enemies laugh among themselves" (verse 6) and its calling upon God: "Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved" (verse 3). This Psalm mentions an earlier Joseph, who also had dreams sent by God, and who also was merciful, as God had shown him how to be merciful - mercy far beyond what we think we may hope for, as that ancient Joseph's brothers thought and feared (see Genesis 37, 39-50).
The doubts and anxieties of social obligation were behind the ethnic and religious divisions between Jews and Gentiles - the "circumcised and uncircumcised" in Rome - that Paul was addressing in the text of Romans. He urges them to remember the abundance and inclusive generosity of God's love, through Jesus. In the Revised English Bible, the text emphasizes how the power of the Holy Spirit transcends all human and national boundaries and rules: "On the human level he was a descendant of David, but on the level of the spirit - the Holy Spirit - he was proclaimed Son of God by an act of power that raised him from the dead: it is about Jesus Christ our Lord" (1:3, 4).
This is the Good News -"it is about Jesus Christ our Lord." In Jesus, we share in the surprising, generous mercy of God - far beyond what we think we may hope for - in the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit. This is the source of our Advent hope, and our Christmas joy -"It is about Jesus Christ our Lord."
This Reflection is drawn from the Bible Resource Center's e-Bulletin Series - an online ministry of the American Bible Society. The Bible Resource Center houses a rich collection of Advent and Christmas Resources for Churches.
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