Dear noelfitz,

Thank you so much for your note about this video. Please note that Gloria.tv did not produce this video and that I'm the one that assembled and posted it. I do understand your concern over Mr. Staples' use of the term "the woman" when referring to Galatians 4:4 and I appreciate you pointing this out. When I assembled the video I immediately had the same concern as you have, however I realized that Mr. Staples is simply making the connection between Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 12 (where Scripture uses the term "the woman")---and linking them with the woman mentioned in Galatians 4:4.

The video itself clearly shows the written text precisely quoted from the NIV Bible ("born of a woman") and this text is shown at the same time that Mr. staples is referring to the passage. In Galatians 4:4 St. Paul said: "God sent his Son, born of a woman". Obviously Mary is "the" woman identified in that passage, which was the point Mr. Staples was making. I believe that Mr. Staples would never intentionally misquote Sacred Scripture.

God bless.

THOMASVALLE

I am grateful to EJGCatholic and Thomasvalle for their contributions here.

I thoght that Mr Staples had misused Scripture in saying that in Gal 4:4 Paul said that Jesus was "born of the woman". I was upset when my post, now published, was initially rejected.

Now I see both my posts are here and Gloria.TV has been in contact with me.

I am very pleased and impressed that Gloria.TV has allowed a view contrary to one of its videos to be published. It shows honjesty, integrity and a commitment to the truth and to the word of God.

I sent a posting previously here, but it was not posted. I now send you a copy of an email I sent to the editore.

I would appreciate hearing from Gloria..

Dear Editor

I wrote to you pointing out that Paul in Gal 4:4 did not say "born of the woman", as Mr Tim Staples claimed a number if times.

I received no reply from you and a post I sent was not shown.

Is there any way I could get a reply from you or contact Gloria.

Am I or Mt Staples in error? Is it important? Do you have a policy of restricting respectful and loyal comments which point out errors?

Could I have contact details of your CEO, Board of Directors and senior people, as I consider it important for a Catholic site to be honest and allow corrections to be made?

Hello noelfitz,
Technically you are right! But I doubt that Mr. Staples intended to misquote Sacred Scripture, but rather he was making the point that the woman in Galatians 4:4 is Mary, and thus she is mentioned in the New Testament in more ways than one. The video itself indeed quotes Scripture as "a woman", which I think should calm your concerns.

There is no doubt that we know that the Blessed Virgin Mary is "The" woman whom Paul is speaking about in Galatians 4:4. And Mr. Staples does a splendid job explaining the traditional Catholic view of Mary and her role in the New Testament.

Consider that in Genesis 3:15 God Himself promises to put enmity between the Serpent and "The woman", not women in general. Revelation 12 also speaks of "The woman".

I do take issue with your claim that Mr. Staples did not answer the caller's question. Mary is surely mentioned in the New Testament as Mr. Staples indicated, if we correctly understand the passages in Genesis, Galatians and Revelation.

I am disappointed with this video,as the question is not answered and scripture is incorrectly quoted.

In the video the claim is made that Gal 4:4 has "the woman" rather than "a woman". Then the bulk of the video is about seeing "the woman" as a title for Mary.

On the screen the text is shown as "a woman".

I have looked at about 30 translations of Gal 4:4 and most have "a woman", some have "woman", but not one has "the woman". The Greek NT (UBS 4th Ed.) has γυναικός (GUNAIKOS, gen.sing of GUNH) without s definite article. Thus it is wrong to say Paul said "born of the woman".

There is no need for Catholics to misuse scripture.