Non dignum est ex utero credere Deum, et Deum Christum .
. . non dignum est ut tanta majestas per sordes et squalores
mulieris transire credatur.
The Gnostics asserted the impurity of matter and of marriage; and they were scandalised by the gross interpretations of the fathers, and even of Augustin himself. See Beausobre, tom. ii. p. 523.