Numerical Bible Notes

By the favor of God she is to have a Son; who will be called the Son of the Most High, and, through her the Son of David, shall receive His father's throne, but with unending empire. Then; in answer to Mary's question, it is declared that the Holy Spirit should come upon her, and power of the Highest overshadow her, so that the Holy Thing born should be called the Son of God. This is not, then; the truth of incarnation declared, though, of course, in perfect accordance with it; it is that of a Man born by divine intervention, without human father, — Son of God, but as Man. And this is Luke's theme: it is the Gospel of the Manhood.