“ Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? ”
Then said Mary unto the angel, (e) How shall this be, seeing (f) I know not a man? (e) The greatness of the matter causes the virgin to ask this question, not that she distrusted by any means at all...
Prediction of the Birth of Jesus. Lk. alone gives this narrative. Three or four months before the birth of Elisabeth's child, Gabriel comes to Nazareth and announces to Mary, a virgin betrothed t...
seeing , &c.. since, &c. Mary's answer shows how she understood the angel's promise. She does not question the fact, as Zacharias did ( Luke 1:18 ), but only inquires as to the mode. To...
34. How shall this be? The holy virgin appears to confine the power of God within as narrow limits as Zacharias had formerly done; for what is beyond the common order of nature, she conclude...
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? Seeing I know not a man - Or, husband. As she was only contracted to Joseph, and not as yet married, she knew that this conc...
Then said Mary unto the angel, &c.— When Mary heard Gabriel say that she was to conceive the Messiah, being conscious of her virginity, she found the matter above her comprehension, and therefo...
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? Then said Mary ... How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? There was here none of the unbelief of Zacharias. On...
Birth of John. The Annunciation 1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true Gentile, trained in Greek c...
How shall this be? — The question of the Virgin is not altogether of the same nature as that of Zacharias in Luke 1:18 . He asks by what sign he shall know that the words were true which told him...
Chapter 3 THE GOSPEL PSALMS. UNLIKE modern church-builders, St. Luke sets his chancel by the porch. No sooner have we passed through the vestibule of his Gospel than we find ourselves within a ci...
the Promised Messiah Luke 1:26-38 The narrative is artlessly simple and natural and is its own complete vindication. No human genius could have invented it. Compare it, for instance, with all t...
(26) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, (27) To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin...
Then said Mary to the angel, how shall this be ,.... This she said not as doubting the truth of what was said; for she required no sign, as Zacharias did; nor is she charged with, and blamed for unb...
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? Ver. 34. How shall this be? ] This is a speech not of unbelief, but of wonderment, as desiring also to be better informe...
Then said Mary, How shall this be How can I immediately conceive a child, (for so the angel meant, and so she understood him to mean,) seeing I know not a man? This was not the language of distru...
LUKE'S GOSPEL WRITTEN FOR A GENTILE RULER (vs.1-4) Luke's introduction shows that, though he was concerned about giving exact information in this letter to Theophilus, he had not thought of bein...
The Birth of Christ Foretold. 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,...
There are some would excuse Mary in this reply, and tell us these words spake in her no doubt that the things spoken by the angel should not come to pass, only admiration, or a desire to be further a...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:26 . The sixth month .— I.e. not of the year: the reference is to the time indicated in Luke 1:24 . Nazareth —St. Luke alone informs us that this village was the place o...
Luke 1:26-38 The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I. "The angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth." Never was a time when, humanly speaking, the promises of...
Luke 1:5-6 . There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And...
Luke 1:1 . Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things, which within a short compass of years have been acted and accomplished among us. In the first a...
The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee Of Christ’s Incarnation These words are the angel’s answer to Mary, who, understanding the angel as speaking of a thing presently to be done before Joseph an...
EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever be an interesting study. Here we shall never know t...
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Acts 9:6 ; Judges 13:8-12
The Seven Magnificats Selections from Luke 1:1-80 and Luke 2:1-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Chri...