Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men. There was here more than true womanly simplicity and gratitude to the Lord for the gift of offspring. She has respect to the manner in which that reproach was to be taken away, in connection with the great Hope of Israel.
The curtain of the first scene of this wonderful story has dropped, but only to rise again and disclose a scene of surpassing sacredness and delicacy, simplicity and grandeur.