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Lucas 1:41
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the babe: Luke 1:15, Luke 1:44, Genesis 25:22, Psalms 22:10
was: Luke 1:67, Luke 4:1, Acts 2:4, Acts 4:8, Acts 6:3, Acts 7:55, Ephesians 5:18, Revelation 1:10
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:14 - prophetess 2 Chronicles 34:22 - the prophetess Jeremiah 1:5 - and before Luke 2:25 - Holy Ghost Luke 6:23 - leap John 14:26 - Holy Ghost
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it came to pass that when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary,.... Which might be before she saw her, and at some little distance from her:
the babe leaped in her womb: which motion was not natural, but supernatural; being made at hearing the voice of Mary, who had now conceived the Messiah, whose forerunner this babe, John the Baptist, was to be; and who, by this motion, gave the first notice of his conception, which his mother Elisabeth took from hence; as he afterwards pointed him out by his finger, and by his baptism made him manifest to Israel:
and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost not with the ordinary graces of the Spirit, for these she had been filled with before, but with extraordinary gifts, with a spirit of prophecy; by which she knew that the Messiah was conceived, and that Mary was the mother of her Lord; that many things had been told her; that she had believed them; and there would be a performance of them; and perhaps it was at this time that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost also; see Luke 1:15.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost - The meaning of this seems to be that she was filled with joy; with a disposition to praise God; with a prophetic spirit, or a knowledge of the character of the child that should be born of her. All these were produced by the Holy Spirit.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 41. Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. — This seems to have been the accomplishment of the promise made by the angel, Luke 1:15, He shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. The mother is filled with the Holy Spirit, and the child in her womb becomes sensible of the Divine influence.
