Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"
      (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.