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Verse 47. _MY SPIRIT HATH REJOICED_] _Exulted_. These words are
uncommonly emphatical-they show that Mary's whole soul was filled with
the Divine influence, and wrapped up in God....
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IN GOD MY SAVIOUR - God is called “Saviour,” as he saves people
from sin and death. He was “Mary’s” Saviour, as he had redeemed
her soul and given her a title to eternal life; and she rejoiced for
tha...
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THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
Analysis and Annotations
I. The Birth and Childhood -- Chapter 1-2:52
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The Introduction. (Luke 1:1)_
2. Zacharias and Elizabeth; the Vision. (Luke 1:5)
3. John th...
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MARY VISITS ELISABETH. THE MAGNIFICAT. The passage links the two
preceding incidents, and serves to show the inferiority of John the
forerunner, to Jesus the Messiah. Mary (finding herself with child)...
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And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has exulted
in God, my Saviour, because he looked graciously on the humble estate
of his servant. For--look you--from now on all generations s...
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AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
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MY SPIRIT. See App-101.
REJOICED. exulted.
IN. Greek. _epi._ App-104.
GOD MY SAVIOUR. Note the Article. the God [Who is] the Saviour [of
me]. See Septuagint Deu 82:15.Psalms 24:6; Psalms 24:6
;...
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_hath rejoiced_ Rather, EXULTS. In the original it is the _general_,
or _gnomic_aorist.
_in God my Saviour_ Isaiah 45:21, "a just God and a Saviour." Comp.
Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 25:9. The expression is...
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The Magnificat
46. _And Mary said_ This chapter is remarkable for preserving a record
of two inspired hymns the _Magnificat_and the _Benedictus_which have
been used for more than a thousand years in t...
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THE MAGNIFICAT...
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ἨΓΑΛΛΊΑΣΕΝ. ‘exults’. In the original it is the
_general_ or _gnomic_ aorist.
ἘΠῚ ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΕΩ͂Ι ΤΩ͂Ι ΣΩΤΗ͂ΡΊ ΜΟΥ. Isaiah
45:21, “a just God and a Saviour.” Comp. Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 25:9.
The expression...
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VER 47. AND MY SPIRIT HAS REJOICED IN GOD MY SAVIOR.
BASIL; The first-fruit of the Spirit is peace and joy. Because then
the holy Virgin had drunk in all the graces of the Spirit, she rightly
adds, An...
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_THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS ANNOUNCED -- LUKE 1:26-56:_ A month after the
announcement of John's birth God sent Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee
with a message for a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to a...
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ΜΕΓΑΛΎΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΕΓΑΛΎΝΩ (G3170)
увеличивать, восхвалять,
превозносить, славить (BAGD).
ΉΓΑΛΛΊΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΑΛΛΙΆΩ (G21)
ликовать, радоваться, быть
переполненным радостью...
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DISCOURSE: 1468
THE VIRGIN’S SONG OF PRAISE
Luke 1:46. _And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my
spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour_.
THE characteristic features of the unregenerate m...
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MY SPIRIT HATH REJOICED— When a person, speaking of himself,
mentions his _soul_ or _spirit_ as doinga thing, it is the strongest
expression in human language, and intimates his doing the thing
mentio...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 4
Predictions of the Redeemer (Luke 1:26-56)
26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of
Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Mary Visited Elizabeth
Scripture_
Luke 1:39-56 And Mary arose in those days and went into the hill
country with haste, into a city of Judah; 40 and entered into the
house of Zac...
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And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
AND MY SPIRIT - or, "all that is within me" (),
HATH REJOICED IN GOD MY SAVIOUR. Mary never dreamt, we see, of her
'own immaculate conception'-to u...
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18 Zacharias does not believe the glad news. Hence he is stricken
dumb, for unbelief has no right to speak of the things of God.
19 Gabriel gave Daniel the explanation of two of his visions
(Dan_8:16...
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BIRTH OF JOHN. THE ANNUNCIATION
1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a
classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true
Gentile, trained in Greek cult...
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MARY'S VISIT TO ELISABETH. THE MAGNIFICAT. This beautiful narrative
must be derived from Mary herself, probably directly. It is told as
vividly and minutely after a lapse of half-a-century as if it we...
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THE MAGNIFICAT. This glorious song of praise, which has been used in
the services of the Church from early times, tells us more than
anything else in the NT. of the character of our Lord's mother, and...
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IN GOD MY SAVIOUR] In Mary's idea of 'salvation' was doubtless
included deliverance from foreign power as well as spiritual
deliverance. 'God my Saviour' is, of course, in accordance with OT.
ideas, G...
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
THE AUTHOR
Luke wrote two books of the *New Testament (NT). Luke’s *Gospel
tells the story of the life and work of Jesus. Luke’s second book,
Acts, continues...
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IN GOD MY SAVIOUR. — We may well believe that this choice of the
name was determined by the meaning of the name, implying God’s work
of salvation, which she had been told was to be given to her Son....
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_Mary's song_. μεγαλύνει : _magnificat_, Vulg [10], whence
the ecclesiastical name for this hymn, which has close affinities with
the song of Hanna in 1 Samuel 2:1-10; variously regarded by critics:
b...
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THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER
Luke 1:39-56
Zacharias lived in a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah. The
narrative evidently implies that there had been no previous
communication between the...
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_In God my Saviour, as appears by the Greek text,[8] though literally
in Latin, in God my salvation. (Witham)_
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
Salutari meo, _Greek: soteri mou, Salvatori meo._...
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MARY'S SUBMISSION
34-38. _“And Mary said, Behold the handmaiden of the Lord: may it he
unto me according to thy word.”_ Good Lord, give us the faith of
Mary, that we may perfectly submit to Thy Word a...
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FIRST PART: THE NARRATIVES OF THE INFANCY, LUKE 1:5 TO LUKE 2:52
Both the first and the third Gospel open with a cycle of narratives
relating to the birth and childhood of Jesus. These narratives do n...
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3. _The song of Mary: Luke 1:46-56_. Elizabeth's salutation was full
of excitement (_she spake out with a loud voice_), but Mary's hymn
breathes a sentiment of deep inward repose. The greater happines...
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_a._ The contrast between the tone of this canticle and Elizabeth's
discourse forbids the admission of the reading of some Latin
authorities which puts it in the mouth of the latter. It is, indeed,
Ma...
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THIRD NARRATIVE: MARY'S VISIT TO ELIZABETH, LUKE 1:39-56.
This narrative is, as it were, the synthesis of the two preceding.
These two divinely favoured women meet and pour forth their hearts.
1. Arr...
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(39) And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with
haste, into a city of Juda; (40) And entered into the house of
Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. (41) And it came to pass, that,...
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The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of
either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious
reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
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_THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN_
‘My soul doth magnify the Lord.… As He spake to our fathers, to
Abraham, and to his seed for ever.’
Luke 1:46
Next to the Lord’s Prayer, perhaps, few passages of Scripture...
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Many had undertaken to give an account of that which was historically
received among Christians, as related to them by the companions of
Jesus; and Luke thought it well having followed these things fr...
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AND MY SPIRIT HATH REJOICED IN GOD MY SAVIOUR. Which also, may be
understood, either of God the Father, who was her Saviour, both as the
God of nature and providence; so the Persic version renders it,...
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And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Ver. 47. _My spirit rejoiceth_] _Tripudiat, _ danceth a galliard
(which seemeth to come from the Greek word here used,
ηγαλλιασε επι τω θεω, _super Deo_...
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_And Mary said_ Under a prophetic impulse, several things which
perhaps she herself did not then fully understand. Having heard
Elisabeth speak, as above related, she likewise was filled with the
Holy...
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As God is never in the Bible called the Saviour of angels or of holy
beings, by calling him her Saviour, Mary acknowledged that she was a
sinner, and needed his salvation; and if she needed salvation...
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The hymn of Mary:...
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AND RAY SPIRIT HATH REJOICED IN GOD, MY SAVIOR....
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LUKE'S GOSPEL WRITTEN FOR A GENTILE RULER
(vs.1-4)
Luke's introduction shows that, though he was concerned about giving
exact information in this letter to Theophilus, he had not thought of
being an...
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39-56 It is very good for those who have the work of grace begun in
their souls, to communicate one to another. On Mary's arrival,
Elisabeth was conscious of the approach of her who was to be the
mot...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 1:46...
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Luke 1:47 And G2532 my G3450 spirit G4151 rejoiced G21 (G5656) in
G1909 God G2316 my G3450 Savior...
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Luke 1:47. AND MY SPIRIT HATH REJOICED. The spirit is, according to
Luther, ‘the highest, noblest part of man, by which he is enabled to
apprehend incomprehensible, invisible, eternal things, and is i...
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ON THE HARMONY with the account in Matthew. Views: 1. That the events
recorded in Matthew 1:18-25 took place before the visit to Elisabeth.
It is urged that a betrothed virgin would not be permitted t...
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SAVIOUR
(_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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Luke 1:46
The Reverence due to the Blessed Virgin.
Note:
I. The singular beauty and purity and steadiness of character which
are manifested in those passages of St. Mary's life which come before
us...
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Luke 1:46
The Soul rejoicing in God.
These words express:
I. The satisfaction which man's reason experiences at contact with
God. God satisfies some of the deepest yearnings of our intellectual
natu...
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Luke 1:5. _There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a
certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife
was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they...
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Luke 1:26. _And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God
unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man
whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgi...
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Luke 1:39. _And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill
country with haste, into a city of Juda; and entered into the house of
Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, whe...
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Luke 1:46. _And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my
spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour._
The burden of Mary's Magnificat is very similar to Hannah's song,
though there was one respec...
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CONTENTS: Birth of John the Baptist foretold. Virgin birth of Jesus
foretold. Mary's visit to Elizabeth. Mary's praise because of
Jehovah's favor. Birth of John the Baptist.
CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit,...
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Luke 1:1. _Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order
a declaration of those things,_ which within a short compass of years
have been acted and accomplished among us. In the first age,...
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MARY SAID. Mary is also filled with the Holy Spirit. These two holy
women are the first human prophets of the New Testament Age. Mary
speaks the language of the Psalms. In Luke 1:46-49, she praises Go...
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_My soul doth magnify the Lord_
MARY’S SONG
Mary was on a visit when she expressed her joy in the language of this
noble song.
It were well if all our social intercourse were as useful to our
hearts...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:46 Mary’s song of praise traditionally has
been called the “Magnificat,” based on the Latin for the opening
word, “magnifies.” The Magnificat is the first of three hymns in
chs. Lu...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:5 The Infancy Narrative. The opening (Luke 1:8)
and conclusion (Luke 2:21) of this secti
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VER. 35. _And the Angel answered... the Holy Ghost shall come upon
thee_, &c. Mark here that the Incarnation is limited only to the
Person of the Word, or Son of God: for He alone was incarnate and ma...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 1:39. CITY OF JUDAH.—The city is not named. Probably it was not
Hebron, as a place so well known would most likely have been named.
The conjecture that Judah is a corruption of J...
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EXPOSITION
THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail
the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever be an
interesting study. Here we shall never know the exact...
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Luke, the author of this third gospel, was called by Paul the apostle
"the beloved physician." There is some speculation that his patron was
a man by the name of Theophilus. In those days physicians w...
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1 Timothy 1:1; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 12:3; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 45:22;...
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God my Savior [τ ω θ ε ω τ ω σ ω τ η ρ ι μ ο υ]. Note
the two articles. "The God who is the or my Savior." The title Savior
is often applied to God in the Old Testament. See Septuagint,
Deuteronomy 32...
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THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS
_Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the
annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
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THE REVELATIONS OF GOD
Luke 1:5
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This
is the Gospel that emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of Man.
It wi...
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My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour — She seems to turn her
thoughts here to Christ himself, who was to be born of her, as the
angel had told her, he should be the Son of the Highest, whose name...