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Matthew does not say “through whom” (Matthew 1:16) he was born, but “out of whom.”(Galatians 4:4) That overthrows Apollinaris, who claimed Christ passed through the virgin as through a tube and took nothing from her.
The evangelist says Jesus was born not through her but out of her — that is, from her all-holy blood.The apostle speaks the same way: “God sent his Son, born of a woman,” not through a woman.