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he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.'

And the messenger answering said to her, `The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

And Mary said, `Lo, the maid-servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to thy saying,' and the messenger went away from her.

and whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord might come unto me?

and happy is she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.'

And my spirit was glad on God my Saviour,

He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,

He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness,

and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant,

An oath that He sware to Abraham our father,

To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

and she brought forth her son--the first-born, and wrapped him up, and laid him down in the manger, because there was not for them a place in the guest-chamber.

because there was born to you to-day a Saviour--who is Christ the Lord--in the city of David,

And they came, having hasted, and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger,

and having seen, they made known abroad concerning the saying spoken to them concerning the child.

And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.

And when the days of their purification were fulfilled, according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present to the Lord,

as it hath been written in the Law of the Lord, --`Every male opening a womb shall be called holy to the Lord,'

and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit--not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.

And he came in the Spirit to the temple, and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for their doing according to the custom of the law regarding him,

then he took him in his arms, and blessed God, and he said,

`Now Thou dost send away Thy servant, Lord, according to Thy word, in peace,