On account of this personal union and communion of the natures, Mary, the most blessed virgin, did not conceive a mere, ordinary human being, but a human being who is truly the Son of the most high God, as the angel testifies. He demonstrated his divine majesty even in his mother's womb in that he was born of a virgin without violating her virginity. Therefore she is truly the mother of God and yet remained a virgin.
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The Solid Declaration (1577), The Book of Concord : The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (1959) translated and edited by Theodore G. Tappert, Solid Declaration, Article VIII :The Person of Christ, p. 595, Philadelphia: Fortress Press -->