Luke1:40

Translation

and she entered the house of ZACHARIAH and greeted

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ELIZABETH.

Paraphrase

and she entered the house of THE ONE WHOM THE ETERNAL AND PERSONAL GOD REMEMBERS and greeted THE ONE WHO HAD BOUND HERSELF TO GIVE ALL ALLEGIANCE TO HER GOD.

Footnotes

1: “greeted”

A typical Jewish greeting was either to wish them “shalom,” which means “wholeness, or wellbeing,” or to say “May the Lord be with you.” The same wish was reciprocated back from the recipient to the first speaker. Whichever greeting Mary used would have been true for these two women in many ways.