Luke 1:45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. Mary's faith, astounding in itself, the most supreme example probably of perfect trust in God and absolute self-devotion to Him that human flesh has ever given, was all the more striking to Elisabeth on account of its contrast with the unbelief of her own husband under a far less severe trial. No wonder that when Mary appeared before her spirit-illuminated eyes, she seemed the embodiment of Faith — that modest virgin, with clasped hands, whom saw in vision, though whom the elect of God are saved, and from whom spring all the Christian graces as fair daughters of a fair mother. Mary is thus, in Elisabeth's eyes, the most blessed of women, because the most faithful; and it suits well that the first psalm of the New Testament should take the form of a praise of the fundamental evangelical virtue. (Professor Warfield.) Parallel Verses KJV: And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. |
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