But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered what kind of salutation this might be.
      (3.) She has the blessing of God upon her: "Blessed art thou among women; not only thou shalt be accounted so by men, but thou shalt be so. Thou that art so highly favoured in this instance mayest expect in other things to be blessed." She explains this herself (Luke 1:48; Luke 1:48), All generations shall call me blessed. Compare it with that which Deborah saith of Jael, another that was the glory of her sex (Judges 5:24), Blessed shall she be above women in the tent.