Shall overshadow thee (επισκιασε). A figure of a cloud coming upon her. Common in ancient Greek in the sense of obscuring and with…

The Holy Ghost shall come upon you. Matthew 1:20.

The power of the Highest, and so on. This evidently means tha…

The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee.—See Note on Luke 1:15. Here, however, the context would suggest to one familiar with…

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…

St. Ambrose of Milan: It was Mary’s role neither to refuse belief in the angel nor to accept the divine message too hastily.…

Once again (cf. v.15) Luke mentions the Holy Spirit, as he does six more times in his first two chapters (1:41, 67, 80; 2:25, 26, 27). The word for…

The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee. The angel does not explain the manner so as to satisfy curiosity, which was unnecessary. He only lead…

And the angel answered and said to her
The angel gave her an account of the manner in which what he has said should …

We have here an account of the mother of our Lord. Although we are not to pray to her, we ought to praise God for her. Christ had to be born miracu…