brethren of the Lord

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 542 words | Copyright

brethren of the Lord. The ‘Lord's brethren’ referred to in the NT may have been: (1) sons of the BVM and Joseph, born after Christ; (2) according to St Jerome, sons of Mary, ‘the mother of James and Joses’ (Mk. 15: 40), whom he identified with the wife of Clopas and sister of the BVM; (3) sons of Joseph by a former marriage (so the E. Church); or (4) sons of Mary, ‘the mother of James and Joses’ (not identified with the sister of the BVM), and Clopas, who was perhaps the brother of Joseph.

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