Helvidius

Worth knowing

• A Roman layman who wrote around A.D. 383 that Mary had other children after Jesus, and that marriage is as honourable as virginity.
• He read the Gospels' mention of Jesus' brothers, and Matthew's "until she had brought forth her son", in their plain sense.
• His tract is lost. Jerome's reply, Against Helvidius, argued that the "brothers" were cousins, and that view prevailed in the Western church.

In Scholar’s Dream, Helvidius has one book

Against Perpetual VirginityHelvidius, a tract on Mary’s perpetual virginity — lost, preserved only in quotationExegesis

Who else was alive

Helvidius against everyone else in the game.