Matthew Poole Commentary - Luke 1:41 - 1:41

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Luke 1:41 - 1:41


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The motion of the child in the womb of the mother after her time of quickening is past, and the more than ordinary motion of it upon some extraordinary cause of joy, is no unusual thing with women in those circumstances; but doubtless as this motion was more than ordinary, so it had a more than ordinary cause, being caused from the Holy Spirit of God, and so the best interpreters judge: what is afterward said of Elisabeth, that she



was filled with the Holy Ghost, is expounded in the next words, wherein she prophesieth, of the Spirit of prophecy.