I am the Lord's servant, Mary answered. May your word to me be fulfilled. Then the angel left her — Mary's response is the fiat of the new creation: may your word to me be fulfilled (genoito moi kata to rhēma sou). The passive (may it be fulfilled) is the submission of her will to the divine will — the same structure as Gethsemane (not my will but yours). I am the Lord's servant (doulē kyriou, slave of the Lord) is the deepest possible self-identification with the divine purpose. The angel departs having received the consent of the one through whom the Word will become flesh.

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