Motif
Child dedicated to temple purity and service
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A motif of the Miraculous Child and Sacred Birth family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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christian apocrypha
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The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete THE GOSPEL OF THE BIRTH OF MARY. / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 455-539 confidence: medium
Mary is described as full of the Lord's grace from birth, remaining three years in her father's house during weaning, and then being devoted to the Lord's service in the temple.
Mary is to be devoted to the service of the Lord in the temple, serve night and day with fasting and prayer, abstain from unclean things, and remain virginal.
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