Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comVincent Word Studies - Luke 1:35 - 1:35
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Shall overshadow
“Denoting the mildest and most gentle operation of divine power, that the divine fire should not consume Mary, but make her fruitful” (Bengel). Compare Exo 33:22; Mar 9:7. Compare the classical legend of Semele, who, being beloved of Jove, besought him to appear to her as he appeared in heaven, in all the terrors of the thunderer, and was consumed by his lightning. The metaphor in the word is taken from a cloud, in which God had appeared (Exo 40:34; 1Ki 8:10).