Luke 1:45

And blessed is she that believed; for there shall be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord.

Elizabeth's use of the word "Lord" here and in Luke 1:43 is significant. There it means "Messiah," and here it means the Father in heaven. This testifies at once to the oneness of God and Christ, and to the fact of their being two different persons; hence, there can be no valid ground here for denominating Mary as the "Mother of God."

THE MAGNIFICAT

Mary's marvelous response recorded in the next ten verses is also called "The Virgin's Hymn."

For nearly fourteen centuries it has been used in the public liturgies of Christendom. We find it first in the office of Lauds in the rule of St. Caesarius of Aries (A.D. 507).[32]

The fact of this response from Mary having been written in poetic form is no evidence whatever that Luke was copying some document in this section. The Psalms of David are also poetry; and Mary the descendent of David proved in these lines that she was indeed a worthy member of the house of David. Only a male chauvinist could deny that this highly favored daughter of David's line could have composed such a beautiful poem, relating it to Luke in her own words.