Last week we started worship with:
“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. ...He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”
This is not our word for magnification, where we make something appear bigger than it really is. When Mary sang this song, she declared in a fresh way the reality of God's greatness (megalynō).
The Magnificat lists several things that the Lord was doing through the Incarnation, but it wraps them in the envelope of mercy (eleos).
God made an un-merited promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3). And after all the mis-steps and outright apostasy of his nation, God was still faithful to His word.
For this Mary sang!
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