[kosta50]

In short, if Elizabeth's sullambano gets to mean lust, then so does Mary's. I don't think you want to go there

Jut a another one of those finer points of the Bible, isn't it? I didn't make up the meaning. Nor did I choose the words. But sullambano sullamabnw means "to seize, take, to conceive, of lust, etc."

Now, we know that Elizabeth did indeed conceive in a natural carnal act with her husband, but we also know that Mary did not (there was no "seed" and no "husband: and no carnal relationship, or violation of her virginity). Unless you favor the Mormon theology.

So, it is an enigma why +Luke uses the same word, when we are certain that the two women became pregnant in very different and mutually exclusive ways, isn't it?

[xzins]

It isn't an enigma why he used the same word for me. It's only an enigma if you have to impose a doctrine upon the text. Otherwise, you just take it literally and go with it.

Guess that makes me anathema.