virgin who was treated like a prostitute during a persecution. Under the Gospel she is received as a virgin, since she does not sin willingly; under the Law she would be repudiated as one who had been corrupted. 12:1. At that time Jesus went through the standing grain on the Sabbath; and his disciples, being hungry, began to pluck ears of grain and to eat. As we also read in another evangelist,63 on account of excessive importunity they did not even have the chance to eat, and therefore