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Is There a Bodily Assumption of Mary?
There's no bodily assumption there in the text. You have to read it into the passage. The pain during childbirth could refer to the sorrow that pierced mary's heart before she gave birth to jesus luke two, 35. This also takes us back to a previous point, that this passage has multiple symbols. Its multivolent. Because the woman is not only mary, it follows that there won't be a one to one correspondence in the symbols being presented. Would one out of ten thousand come up with a bodily assumption of mary? I don't think so. Protestantism has been a giant experiment that shows thousands of people can read the bible and find things