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Luk 1:34. Πῶς, how) This How is not inconsistent with faith, as Luk 1:45 proves.[8]-οὐ γινώσκω, I know not) The present is here used for [in accordance with and in reference to] the very moment of the conception, which was still future. She gathers from the words of the angel himself, that she is not about to know man. Ἐπεὶ, seeing that, is categorical [absolute]. Mary understood that this promise is being now given to her as one immediately about to be fulfilled, without respect to the consummation of her espousals. A woman is also said to know a man, Num 31:17; Jdg 9:39.
[8] The difference between her and Zacharias, Luk 1:18; lay not in the words but in the spirit.-ED. and TRANSL.