Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Luke 1:47
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.
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.
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...
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...
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)...
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...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
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 ;...
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...
_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...
THE MAGNIFICAT...
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...
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...
_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...
ΜΕΓΑΛΎΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΕΓΑΛΎΝΩ (G3170) увеличивать, восхвалять, превозносить, славить (BAGD). ΉΓΑΛΛΊΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΑΛΛΙΆΩ (G21) ликовать, радоваться, быть переполненным радостью...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
_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._...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
(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,...
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...
_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...
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...
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,...
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_...
_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...
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...
The hymn of Mary:...
AND RAY SPIRIT HATH REJOICED IN GOD, MY SAVIOR....
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...
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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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...
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...
HATH REJOICED (ηγαλλιασεν). This is aorist active indicative. Greek tenses do not correspond to those in English. The verb αγαλλιαω is a Hellenistic word from the old Greek αγαλλω. It means to exult...
SAVIOUR (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
_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...
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...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:5 The Infancy Narrative. The opening (Luke 1:8) and conclusion (Luke 2:21) of this secti
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...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Timothy 1:1; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 12:3; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 45:22;...
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...
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...
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...
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...