...the mother of Christ, she felt and spoke as a Jew: " He has holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy ; as he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his teed, forever." We perceive the same thing in the exultation and prophecy of Zacharias, the father...

...told us in her song of joy ? " He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts." " He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek." Yes, it is a sad truth, but one which we must all have felt in ourselves, or seen in others,...

...psalmist says : ' The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever',38 and in Mary's canticle are the words: 'He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, towards Abraham and his seed for ever.'39 Implore mercy then for those who need...

...the people. The Church Fathers had based their approval of such a feast on two biblical texts: "He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble" (Luke 14:11), and "up with the low and down with the high" (Ezekiel 21:31). But by allowing people...

...low estate of his handmaid; for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath...exalted the humble. He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away." I recollect the strange emotion which took by surprise...

...will benefit. It is into the mouth of Mary of the Magnificat that the evangelist puts the words 'He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meek.' Can women then come to make use of the theme of God's powerfulness? In a liberation theology...

...shewed strength with his arm ; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 19 He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away. 20 He hath...

...Here Spenser momentarily touches the radical socio-spiritual strain in the pastoral tradition: "He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble." On the appropriation of this element into the "Aprill" eclogue of SC and other Elizabethan royal pastorals,...

...contrary, position in the next world was typically held to be threatened by privilege in this. "He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meek", says the Magnificat. The break with Christian attitudes of submission to inequality dates...

...handmaiden. . . . He that is mighty hath magnified me. . . . He hath scattered the proud. . . . He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble and meek. . . . The rich he hath sent empty away." It is a song sung from the most profound depth of...