Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Here also belongs what was announced before about the bush which burned and yet was not damaged, about the rock that was ripped off without hands, and many similar types of the Old Testament, all which denote that Christ was to be born of a virgin. That's why in the first promise in Genesis 3:15, He is called Seed *of the Woman* - to indicate that He was not to be born of the blood of mankind nor of flesh, but that He Himself would prepare the temple of His body out of the sanctified and cleansed blood of Mary. - Johann Gerhard, Sermon for Holy Christmas Day, *Postilla* trans. by Elmer M. Hohle