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 the contrary taking the fact for granted, the simple import of the question seems to be-On what principle is this to be, so contrary to the hitherto unbroken law of human generation? Accordingly, instead of reproof, she receives an explanation on that very point, and in mysterious detail.