It happened, when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, that the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
      (2.) Upon the account of others. The virgin Mary, as the mother of the Messiah, is become a kind of public person, wears a public character, and is therefore immediately endued with another spirit, a more public spirit than before she had, and therefore looks abroad, looks about her, looks before her, and takes notice of God's various dealings with the children of men (Luke 1:50; Luke 1:50, c.), as Hannah (1 Samuel 2:3, &c.). In this she has especially an eye to the coming of the Redeemer and God's manifesting himself therein.