χαῖρε, κεχαριτωμένη : ave plena gratiâ, Vulg [4], on which Farrar (C. G. T.) comments: “not gratiâ plena, but gratiâ cumulata ”; much graced or favoured by God. χαριτόω is Hellenistic, and is found, besides here, only in Ephesians 1:6 in N. T. ὁ Κύριος μετὰ σοῦ, the Lord (Jehovah) is or be with thee, ἐστί or ἔστω understood; the two renderings come practically to the same thing.

[4] Vulgate (Jerome's revision of old Latin version).

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