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5. Actually in the Aramaic language of the time, the word for

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 04:01 AM

Dec 2015

"virgin" and the word for a woman being in the woods were very similar expressions.

That is one possibility.

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How the Virgin Mary Became the World�s Most Powerful Woman [View all] Lodestar Dec 2015 OP

In what exactly has this imaginary Mary been powerful? Yorktown Dec 2015 #1

why do people "know" she was a virgin Skittles Dec 2015 #2

Actually in the Aramaic language of the time, the word for truedelphi Dec 2015 #5

"woods birth" does not have the same ring to it Skittles Dec 2015 #6

This is what rubs me Cartoonist Dec 2015 #4

"powerful"? trotsky Dec 2015 #8

In the same sense as... uriel1972 Dec 2015 #9

If we are talking power Goblinmonger Dec 2015 #11

The Medjugorje visions edhopper Dec 2015 #10