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Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
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.
We have here an interview between the two happy mothers, Elisabeth and Mary: the angel, by intimating to Mary the favour bestowed on her cousin Elisabeth (Luk 1:36), gave occasion for it; and…
Cambridge Bible
hath rejoiced Rather, exults. In the original it is the general, or gnomicaorist.
in God my Saviour Isa 45:21, "a just God and a Saviour." Comp. Isa 12:2; Isa 25:9. The expression is also found in the…
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