For with God nothing shall be impossible.
] That is consistent with his nature and perfections, with his
counsels, purposes, and promises: every thing that he has said,
purposed, or promised, he is able to do, and will; every word
that he has spoken, every thing predicted by his prophets, or
declared by his angels, and particularly this of a virgin's
conceiving and bearing a Son: so that the angel not only answers
her question, how this should be, but confirms her faith in it;
partly by the instance of her cousin Elisabeth, and partly by
observing the infinite omnipotence of God.