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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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near kL<strong>of</strong>lwonian <strong>the</strong> Mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> her Lord, her<br />

salutation was that <strong>of</strong> a mo<strong>the</strong>r to a mo<strong>the</strong>r—<strong>the</strong><br />

mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ^ preparer' to <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> Him for<br />

Whom he would prepare. To be more precise: <strong>the</strong><br />

words which, filled with <strong>the</strong> Holy Ghost, she<br />

spake, were <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r's utterance, to <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r,<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> homage which her unborn babe <strong>of</strong>fered to<br />

his Lord; while <strong>the</strong> answering hymn <strong>of</strong> Mary was<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong>fering <strong>of</strong> that homage unto God. It was <strong>the</strong><br />

antiphonal mornings psalmody <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Messianic<br />

day as it broke, <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> words were still all<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old dispensation,* but <strong>the</strong>ir music <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

new;, <strong>the</strong> keynote being that <strong>of</strong> ^ favour,' ^ grace,'<br />

struck by <strong>the</strong> Angel in his first salutation: * favour'<br />

to <strong>the</strong> Virgin;' * favour,' eternal *&vour* '^"^-^ to<br />

all His humble <strong>and</strong> poor ones; ^ <strong>and</strong> ^ favour' to<br />

Israel, stretching b ma buhmi, in golden line from<br />

<strong>the</strong> calling <strong>of</strong> Abraham to <strong>the</strong> glorious future ^••^^^<br />

that now opened.® Not one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se fundamental

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