Tertullian

“ We acknowledge, however, that the prophetic declaration of Simeon is fulfilled, which he spoke over the recently-born Saviour: [1] “Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign that shall be spoken against.” ”

“ But with us there is no equivocation, nothing twisted into a double sense. [6] Light is light; and darkness, darkness; yea is yea; and nay, nay; “whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.” [7] She who bare (really) bare; and although she was a virgin when she conceived, she was a wife [8] when she brought forth her son. Now, as a wife, she was under the very law of “opening the womb,” [9] wherein it was quite immaterial whether the birth of the male was by virtue of a husband’s co-operation or not; [10] it was the same sex [11] that opened her womb. ”