1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Maccabees 7:22 She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb; for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you.

Womb. This has always astonished the learned, the infant being formed often against the woman's desire, Job 10:10., and Wisdom 7:2. (St. Augustine, anima 1:15.) (Calmet)