Luke 1:42

And she lifted up her voice with a loud cry, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

One may only be astounded at the declaration to the effect that "Elizabeth's exclamation was not unlike uncontrollable ecstatic behavior"![31] Indeed! Indeed! Where is there any evidence of any such thing as that? The loud cry of Elizabeth could have been nothing else except a shout of joy; and, as for the notion that her actions were uncontrollable, such a view is refuted by the ordered logic of the intelligible words spoken by her on that occasion.

This greeting from Elizabeth did not follow Mary's revelation of her own conception, but preceded it, Elizabeth having become aware of it through the direct revelation of the Holy Spirit. Her words, therefore, were of monumental encouragement to the virgin who would at once have accepted Elizabeth's salutation as a divine confirmation of all that the angel Gabriel had foretold.