Luke 1:44

44 For loo assone as the voyce of thy salutacion sownded in myne eares the babe sprange in my belly for ioye.

Luke 1:44 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 1:44

For lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in
mine ears
This she mentions, as the signal by which she knew that she was the mother of her Lord; namely, from that unusual and extraordinary motion of the child, she felt within her:

the babe leaped in my womb for joy;
that the mother of her Lord, and his, was come thither: the Jews ought not to object to this, who affirm, that the embryos, or infants in their mother's womb, sung the song at the Red Sea, and praised God. ^F9

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Targum in Ps lxviii. 27. Zohar in Exod. fol. 23. 3. T. Hieros, Sota, fol. 20. 3. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 75. 3.

Luke 1:44 In-Context

42 and cryed with a loude voyce and sayde: Blessed arte thou amonge wemen and blessed is the frute of thy wombe.

43 And whence hapeneth this to me that the mother of my Lorde shuld come to me?

44 For loo assone as the voyce of thy salutacion sownded in myne eares the babe sprange in my belly for ioye.

45 And blessed arte thou that belevedst: for thoose thinges shalbe performed wich were tolde ye from the lorde.

46 And Mary sayde. My soule magnifieth the Lorde.