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:The word 'brothers', we have formerly mentioned, is employed, agreeably to the Hebrew idiom, to denote any relative whatever; and, accordingly, Helvidius displayed excessive ignorance in concluding that Mary must have had many sons because Christ's 'brother' are sometimes mentioned. - John Calvin, ''Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke'', vol. II, p. 215 (on Matthew 13:55)
[Note: Helvidius was a 5th-century Christian who denied the perpetual virginity of Mary and was rebuked and refuted by Jerome in his treatise, "[http://www.ccel.org/fathersccel/NPNF2-06schaff/treatise/marynpnf206.vi.v.htm html On the Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary Against Helvidius]"]
Huldrych Zwingli:
