Luke 1:47

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 in short the house, where faith and God's word indwells.' The exultation in spirit came first, and as a result her soul magnifies the Lord. ‘Soul' and ‘spirit,' taken together, include the whole inner being.

In God my Saviour. Not simply her ‘deliverer from degradation, as a daughter of David, but, in a higher sense, author of that salvation which god's people expected ' (Alford). Her words must be taken in a full spiritual meaning. Implying her own need of a ‘Saviour,' they oppose the papal dogma of the Immaculate Conception.