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To: annalex

It happened right then! And it remains, of course. Is that how you draw your ‘own’ interpretation - one verse at a time?

And, furthermore, when are you interested in ‘verbatim’?


4,556 posted on 12/03/2010 5:34:12 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: presently no screen name
It happened right then!

This is what the Angel said:

[28] ...Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. [...30...] Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. [31] Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name Jesus. [32] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father; and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. [33] And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

The angle says what will be. Nothing happened yet. But for some reason, Mary does not take it as a prediction of her future child with Joseph:

How shall this be done, because I know not man?

Note: she is more astonished about conceiving a child than about that child having this extraordinary power.

The angel them proceed to further explain, all that in the future sense: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee..."

So it is not my own interpretation: Mary is astonished that she, a betrothed woman, will have a child. Go figure.

when are you interested in ‘verbatim’?

Always. Some verses of the Bible are poetical or allegorical, but by default the first interpretation is always literal and even if not, attentive to detail. I am, you know, Catholic: I love, study and obey he scripture as written. If I wanted to spread around my own theories I'd become Protestant and tell tall stories instead.

5,043 posted on 12/09/2010 6:00:03 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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