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LUKE 1:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 1:26Luke 1:28
“To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.”
To a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary — the double identification: a virgin (parthenos) pledged to be married and a man named Joseph who is a descendant of David. The Davidic lineage is Joseph's, which will be relevant to the legal messianic claim (Matthew 1); Mary's own Davidic descent is not stated here but is implied by the angel's announcement in verse 32. The name Mary (Mariam, the Hebrew Miriam, Moses's sister) connects the annunciation to the Exodus liberation narrative.

Church Fathers on Luke 1:27

Because either the Incarnation of Christ was to be in the sixth age of the world, or because it was to serve to the fulfilling of the law, rightly in the sixth month of John’s conception was an angel sent to Mary, to tell her that a Savior should be born. Hence it is said, And in the sixth month, &c. We must understand the sixth month to be March, on the twenty-fifth day of which our Lord is reported to have been conceived, and to have suffered, as also to have been born on…

Bede · 8th century

The heavenly spirits visit us, not as it seems fit to them, but as the occasion conduces to our advantage, for they are ever looking upon the glory and fullness of the Divine Wisdom;; hence it follows, The angel Gabriel was sent.

Basil the Great · 4th century

To the virgin Mary was sent, not any one of the angels, but the archangel Gabriel; for upon this service it was meet that the highest angel should come, as being the bearer of the highest of all tidings. He is therefore marked by a particular name, to signify what was his effectual part in the work. For Gabriel is interpreted, “the strength of God.” By the strength of God then was He to be announced Who was coming as the God of strength, and mighty in battle, to put down the…

Gregory the Great · 6th century
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