MARY,
VIRGIN

See also: Virgin birth

… not as the mother of grace, but as the daughter of grace.

Bengel

Not that she is above him who is truly God, or even equal to him. To think or say such a thing would be blasphemous.

Louis de Montfort

If the angel Gabriel addressed her as “highly favored,” and if her cousin Elizabeth called her “blessed … among women,” we should not be shy to think and speak of her in the same terms, because of the greatness of her Son.

John Stott