<p>1:42- see on Lk. 1:28.</p><p><i>And she lifted up her voice with a loud cry and said: Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb</i>- Elisabeth is repeating the words and ideas of the Angel in :28. Mary would have realized that the Angel was indeed from God, and the same Spirit was speaking through Elisabeth as through the Angel. We see the Father's gentle grace in providing her with confirmation after confirmation of the strange and lonely path she was being led along.</p>