You mean when she said be it unto me according to thy word.
Sounds like she was believing God's message, unlike Zacharias.
Moreover, as someone who was suppose to be sinless, she still had to make an offering for her own sins (Lk.2:22 cf Ex.12:8)
Sounds like she was believing God's message, unlike Zacharias.
Yes! That is correct. She carried Christ in her heart by Faith before she carried Him in her womb. The first follower of Christ and therefore first Christian!
Following her Faith in God came her ‘Yes’ to Him, and therefore the Incarnation of Christ.
Moreover, as someone who was suppose to be sinless, she still had to make an offering for her own sins (Lk.2:22 cf Ex.12:8)
[I take it you mean Leviticus?] Good point, a lot can be learned here about the utter humility of Christ.
The Law of Moses was two-fold: The purification of the mother, and the presentation and then redemption of her first-born. According to the Law a woman who bore a child was considered legally unclean. Not necessarily a reference to sin, though Catholics do believe that she was freed from all stain of sin. Because she bore Christ without intercourse and because her virginity remained intact after the birth of Christ, she was exempt from this Law – but submitted to it.
Likewise, for the redemption of the child, the sacrifice of a lamb, or a pair of doves for poor people, was not required for Christ. Yet, as St. Paul says “though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich” the offering of the poor was made on His behalf. Christ, through his family even as an infant, obeyed the Law even though He was completely exempt from it. And this done “for our sake”.
Leviticus 12:
6 " 'When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering. 7 He shall offer them before the LORD to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood.
" 'These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. 8 If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.' "
Cordially,