“ And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house. ”
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...
with . in fellowship with. Greek. sun. App-104. Not the same word as in verses: Luke 1:28 ; Luke 1:30 ; Luke 1:37 ; Luke 28:39 ; Luke 28:61 ; Luke 28:66 . returned . returned back. Greek...
The amount of this narrative is, that the birth of John was distinguished by various miracles, which gave reason to expect, that something great and remarkable would appear in the child himself...
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house. And Mary abode with her about three months - According to some, the departure of Mary from Hebron must have been but a few d...
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house. And Mary abode with her about three months - that is, until there should be visible evidence of the fulfillment of t...
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...
And Mary abode with her about three months. — This brings the time so close to the birth of the Baptist that we might well deem it likely that the Virgin waited for it. On the other hand, the next...
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,...
And Mary abode with her about three months ,.... That is, she continued with Elisabeth, as the Syriac and Persic versions express, about the space of three months; in which time, she had full satisf...
And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house. Ver. 56. And returned to her own house ] An honest heart is found where its calling is. Such a one, when he is abroad, i...
He hath put down the mighty from their seats The mighty think to secure themselves by might in their seats, but he puts them down and overturns their seats; while, on the other hand, those of low d...
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,...
It is most probable that she staid with her until she was brought to bed, not leaving her just at the time of her travail, but she staid not long after, but went home: by this time she must herself k...
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...
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...
Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should he delivered The nativity of John the Baptist That which was miraculous at the beginning became natural towards the close. This is seen in the ca...
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:
Luke 1:56
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...
Mary returned to her own house — And thence soon after to Bethlehem.