Excerpt from Christmas True, the Messianic prophecies would have been great without their association with Mary; but they could not have been great so tenderly. Even when the words made no mention of the Mother, the thought of her was there - and the words were sweeter on that account. And pre cisely what raised the prophet Isaias, amongthe whole company of the prophets, to a supereminence all his own was that his message rang with the full, explicit wonder of Mary: Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son; and His ...
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Excerpt from Christmas True, the Messianic prophecies would have been great without their association with Mary; but they could not have been great so tenderly. Even when the words made no mention of the Mother, the thought of her was there - and the words were sweeter on that account. And pre cisely what raised the prophet Isaias, amongthe whole company of the prophets, to a supereminence all his own was that his message rang with the full, explicit wonder of Mary: Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son; and His name shall be called Emmanuel. The audacious grandeur of that! The significance of that name, meaning nothing less than God-with-as, telling in one word of the miracle and mystery of the Incarnation! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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