“For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.”
For the Mighty One has done great things for me — holy is his name — the great things done are not specified here but implied: the virgin conception, the eternal throne, the divine sonship all announced in the preceding verses. The Mighty One (ho dynatos) is a title for God throughout the Psalms. Holy is his name (hagion to onoma autou) echoes Psalm 111:9 — the holiness of the divine name is the ground of the reliability of divine promises and the appropriateness of praise.
Church Fathers on Luke 1:49
The Virgin shows that not for her own virtue is she to be pronounced blessed, but she assigns the cause saying, For he that is mighty has magnified me.
What great things has He done to you; I believe that a creature you gave birth to the Creator, servant you brought forth the Lord, that through you God redeemed the world, through you He restored it to life.
But where are the great things, if they be not that I still a virgin conceive (by the will of God) overcoming nature. I have been accounted worthy, without being joined to a husband, to be made a mother, not a mother of any one, but of the only-begotten Savior.
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