Origen, on Luke 1:48

“Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.”

“But why was she lowly and cast down, who carried in her womb the Son of God? Consider that lowliness, which in the Scriptures is particularly praised as one of the virtues, is called by the philosophers “modestia.” And we also may paraphrase it, that state of mind in which a man instead of being puffed up, casts himself down.”

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