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John Gill's Exposition on Luke 1:44

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, etc.] This she mentions, as the signal by which she knew that she was the mother of her Lord; namely, from that unusual and extraordinary motion of the child, she felt within her: the babe leaped in my womb for joy; that the mother of her Lord, and his, was come thither: the Jews ought not to object to this, who affirm, that the embryos, or infants in their mother's womb, sung the song at the Red Sea, and praised God. f81
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