<p>1:46 <i>And Mary said: My soul does magnify the Lord</i>- See on :38 for the allusions to Hannah's song. This is alluded to by Paul, when he uses the same Greek word in Phil. 1:2: &ldquo;Christ shall be <i>magnified </i>in <i>my body / soul</i>&rdquo;. If this is a valid allusion, then &quot;the Lord&quot; is a reference to Jesus. In Lk. 1:43 Elisabeth had just described Jesus as &quot;my Lord&quot;. And then Mary here parallels &quot;the Lord&quot; with &quot;God my saviour / my Jesus&quot;. She understood how God was to be manifest in Jesus, as she parallels &ldquo;my soul&quot; with &quot;my spirit&quot;(:47). It's amazing that an illiterate teenager should have risen to such heights of understanding, probably without learning much at all from the local synagogue.</p>