ἐπάρασά τις γυνὴ φωνὴν ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου. A woman uplifting her voice out of the crowd. “Bene sentit,” says Bengel, “sed muliebriter loquitur.”

μακαρία ἡ κοιλία ἡ βαστάσασά σε. See Luke 1:28; Luke 1:48. “How many women have blessed the Holy Virgin, and desired to be such a mother as she was! What hinders them? Christ has made for us a wide way to this happiness, and not only women, but men may tread it—the way of obedience; this it is which makes such a mother, and not the throes of parturition.” St Chrysostom. It is a curious undesigned coincidence that (as we see from Matthew 12:46) the Virgin had just arrived upon the scene.

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