Acts 9:6; Judges 13:8-12
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 que...
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 Na...
seeing , &c.. since, &c. Mary's answer shows how she understood the angel's promise. She does not question the fact, as Zacharias did ( Lu...
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...
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 Josep...
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 fou...
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? The...
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. Luk...
The Annunciation (see on Matthew 1 ). Wonder and awe and adoring praise are the emotions with which Christians have ever regarded the unspeakable...
How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? ] The traditional view of this passage, which sees in it a proof of the perpetual virginity of our Lord'...
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 s...
Chapter 3 THE GOSPEL PSALMS. UNLIKE modern church-builders, St. Luke sets his chancel by the porch. No sooner have we passed through the vestibul...
Chapter 4 THE VIRGIN MOTHER. THE Beautiful Gate of the Jewish Temple opened into the "Court of the Women"-so named from the fact that they were n...
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...
(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...
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 Zacharia...
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...
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 kn...
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 thi...
The Birth of Christ Foretold. 26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sen...
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...
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...
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...
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 d...
Luke 1:26-27 . And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man who...
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 be...
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 speakin...
EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever b...
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
The explanation of the miracle:
The Seven Magnificats Selections from Luke 1:1-80 and Luke 2:1-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, w...
The Revelations of God Luke 1:5-79 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This is the Gospel that...
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?