The scripture "states", that yosef and miriam are betrothed. Implying that consummation would follow.
Pinacled -
Even if you personally read something in your English translation and feel something is
IMPLIED, that means it's not stated. It just means you personally are reading something in English and feel something is implied in the English (you feel).
The Bible does not say Mary and Joseph ever got married. The Bible does not state that they ever had marital relations. The Bible does not state that Mary had other children. You can feel anything is "implied" by anything but that's unrelated to what the Bible says.
The simple reality is the Bible is silent on this. Yes, if you ignore the Greek and substitute a word used in an English tome and impose what you feel is
implied by that English word, then you probably can come up with whatever you feel, but there's a vast difference between that and what the Bible states (in the original koine Greek).
The Bible is silent. But Tradition is not. The question of whether Mary and Joseph were married is unsettled in Tradition - the East has a tradition they did not (yes, sharing a house but not a bed) and in the West, there's a Tradition that they did but never consummated that (which, of course, TECHNICALLY by Jewish custom, not fully married). Not until about 200 years ago did anyone opinion that they EVER had marital relations. So, not only are you imposing something the Bible never states (in extreme eisegesis) but going against historic, ecumenical Tradition.
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the Bible is silent on whether Mary had other children.
But Tradition is not. Not once in Scripture is it EVER REMOTELY stated that She did. You are forcing a word to mean something it usually does not, my brother. The ancient, universal, ecumenical tradition from at least the year 110 is that She did not, that the persons named were NOT biological bothers but children of Joseph from an earlier marriage and/or cousins. Does the bible state that? No, just as it does not state that these are children of Mary. But that IS the ancient, universal, ecumenical Tradition until about 200 years ago.
Notice what the Bible does NOT say. And you noting "implies" is just another way to indicate that the Bible does NOT say what you do. And you may dismiss such ancient Tradition but you accept that Book as Scripture because of Tradition; there is no document floating down from Heaven that has the Table of Contents for the Bible, what you ACCEPT as Scripture is a matter of ancient, ecumenical Tradition. To dismiss Tradition is to leave wide open what is and is not the Bible, because the Bible never says.
Other wise a man under the same roof as a woman would be unlawfull(against Gods Law)
The Bible never says that, either. It would be sin to have marital relations if not married but there's no Jewish law against men and women sharing the same house. And please don't tell me it's "IMPLIED" (meaning, it's not stated). My sister and I lived under the same roof for 14 years and NO that was not unlawful according to the Torah.
A blessed Lenten season to you and yours.
- Josiah
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