What are the main arguments Protestants use against the idea of the perpetual virginity of Mary?
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They tend to be those of the heretic Helvidus, who held that:
- St. Mary had other children besides Jesus
- St. Joseph "knew her not till she brought forth her firstborn son" (Matt. 1:25) means that he did know her after His birth
and thus she was not a perpetual virgin.
St. Jerome refutes these views in Against Helvidius: The Perpetual Virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (383 A.D.) and In Matth., I, 18.
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