“ And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. ”
In God my Saviour - God is called “Saviour,” as he saves people from sin and death. He was “Mary’s” Saviour, as he had redeemed her soul and given her a title to eternal life; and she rejoiced fo...
Mary Visits Elisabeth. The Magnificat. The passage links the two preceding incidents, and serves to show the inferiority of John the forerunner, to Jesus the Messiah. Mary (finding herself with chi...
my spirit. See App-101. rejoiced . exulted. in. Greek. epi. App-104. God my Saviour. Note the Article. the God [Who is] the Saviour [of me]. See Septuagint Deu 82:15. Psalms 24:6 ; Psalm...
DISCOURSE: 1468 THE VIRGIN’S SONG OF PRAISE Luke 1:46-47 . And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour . THE characteristic features of the unreg...
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. My spirit hath rejoiced - Exulted. These words are uncommonly emphatical - they show that Mary's whole soul was filled with the Divine influence, and wr...
My spirit hath rejoiced— When a person, speaking of himself, mentions his soul or spirit as doinga thing, it is the strongest expression in human language, and intimates his doing the thing men...
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. And my spirit - or, "all that is within me" ( Psalms 103:1 ), Hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Mary never dreamt, we see, of her 'own immacu...
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...
In God my Saviour. — We may well believe that this choice of the name was determined by the meaning of the name, implying God’s work of salvation, which she had been told was to be given to her Son...
the Song of the Virgin Mother Luke 1:39-56 Zacharias lived in a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah. The narrative evidently implies that there had been no previous communication betwee...
(39) And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; (40) And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. (41) And it came to pass, that,...
THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord.… As He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.’ Luke 1:46-55 Next to the Lord’s Prayer, perhaps, few passages of Sc...
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Which also, may be understood, either of God the Father, who was her Saviour, both as the God of nature and providence; so the Persic version renders...
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. Ver. 47. My spirit rejoiceth ] Tripudiat, danceth a galliard (which seemeth to come from the Greek word here used, ηγαλλιασε επι τω θεω, super D...
And Mary said Under a prophetic impulse, several things which perhaps she herself did not then fully understand. Having heard Elisabeth speak, as above related, she likewise was filled with the Hol...
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 Interview of Mary and Elisabeth; The Song of Mary. 39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste,...
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CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:39 . City of Judah .—The city is not named. Probably it was not Hebron, as a place so well known would most likely have been named. The conjecture that Judah is a corruptio...
Saviour ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 1:16 ).
Luke 1:46-47 The Soul rejoicing in God. These words express: I. The satisfaction which man's reason experiences at contact with God. God satisfies some of the deepest yearnings of our intellectu...
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...
My soul doth magnify the Lord Mary’s song Mary was on a visit when she expressed her joy in the language of this noble song. It were well if all our social intercourse were as useful to our he...
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...
The hymn of Mary:
1 Timothy 1:1 ; Isaiah 12:2 ; Isaiah 12:3 ; Isaiah 45:21 ; Isaiah 45:22 ; Luke 2:11 ; Titus 2:10 ; Titus 2:13 ; Titus 3:4-6 ; Zechariah 9:9 ; Zephaniah 3:14-17
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...
My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour — She seems to turn her thoughts here to Christ himself, who was to be born of her, as the angel had told her, he should be the Son of the Highest, whose n...