The Theotokos and the Saints · Lecture 013
The Ninth Ode of the Theotokos
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Within the Magnificat, the Theotokos prophetically confesses the unborn child as her Lord, God, and Savior, anticipating the name Jesus announced in Luke 1:31 and bestowed at His circumcision. Panagopoulos relates Christ’s birth without a human father and His divine existence without a mother to Melchizedek in Genesis 14, a figure of the eternal priesthood. By the Holy Spirit the Son assumed flesh and blood, overthrowing the devil and death. His presence is known inwardly through compunction, gratitude, joy, and amendment of life, especially in repentance, worship, and Communion. Against the carnal and merely natural person stands the spiritual person, who answers injury with mercy. Mary rejoices in God’s calling and fulfills images of the victorious woman of Genesis 3:15, the Ark, the golden jar, Aaron’s rod, Jacob’s ladder, and the bush; yet her words “my Savior” affirm that she too required deliverance from ancestral sin.
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