... all of Luke 1 and 2 is articulated here both in Elizabeth's blessing and by the activity of the unborn baby John. Verse 46 begins the beautiful canticle known as "the Magnificat." At the start of the canticle Mary confirms the "makaria" ("blessed ... of God taking shape in the tiny helpless unborn child Mary carries all the more startling in contrast. What J. Gresham Machen called"a genuinely Jewish religious ideal" ("The Origin of the FirstTwo Chapters of Luke," Princeton Theological Review 10[1912]:260-61 ...
... all of Luke 1 and 2 is articulated here both in Elizabeth’s blessing and by the activity of the unborn baby John. Verse 46 begins the beautiful canticle known as "the Magnificat." At the start of the canticle Mary confirms the "makaria" ("blessed are ... of God taking shape in the tiny helpless unborn child Mary carries all the more startling in contrast. What J. Gresham Machen called “a genuinely Jewish religious ideal" ("The Origin of the First Two Chapters of Luke," Princeton Theological Review 10[1912 ...
