For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
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For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!
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For loo assone as the voyce of thy salutacion sownded in myne eares the babe sprange in my belly for ioye.
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For loe, assoone as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my bellie for ioye,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of…
44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
Ver. 44. Leaped in my womb] More like a suckling at the breast (as the word signifieth) than an embryo in the womb (βρεφος, puer recens natus the boy newly formed, 1Pe 2:2). The Spirit then worketh, even in unborn babes that are elect, some kind of saving knowledge of Christ, answerable to faith in those that are grown up. The babe’s motion here was not natural, but spiritual (saith one). Therefore John was sanctified in the womb, and did really rejoice at the presence of Christ in the Virgin. Now sanctification presupposeth justification, and that, faith. Yea, this joy was a true effect of faith in the Messiah; therefore infants are capable of faith: thus he. Seminal faith we cannot deny them.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain By these words Elisabeth declareth that she looked upon…
By these words Elisabeth declareth that she looked upon the motion of the child in her womb, upon Mary’s salutation of her, as something more than natural.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For lo, as soon as the voice of thy…
For lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears,.... This she mentions, as the signal by which she knew that she was the mother of her Lord; namely, from that unusual and extraordinary motion of the child, she felt within her:
the babe leaped in my womb for joy; that the mother of her Lord, and his, was come thither: the Jews ought not to object to this, who affirm, that the embryos, or infants in their mother's womb, sung the song at the Red Sea, and praised God. (i).
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(i) Targum in Ps lxviii. 27. Zohar in Exod. fol. 23. 3. T. Hieros, Sota, fol. 20. 3. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 75. 3.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 44. Leaped in my womb for joy—As if even…
44. Leaped in my womb for joy—As if even before birth joyfully predicting by the Holy Spirit the Messiah at the approach of the Messiah’s future mother; as if indicating that hereafter his own joy would be fulfilled in the Messiah’s fulness. It seems most plainly accordant with the mind of the inspired writer, that, upon this occasion, the unborn harbinger salutes with joy the unborn Messiah at his first approach. From before his birth he was to be filled with the Holy Ghost. That Spirit now filled the mother because of the spirit of the child.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 44. for joy] Rather, in exultation.
44. for joy] Rather, in exultation.
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