Adam Clarke, on Luke 1:25

“Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he hath had regard to take away my reproach among men.”

“To take away my reproach - As fruitfulness was a part of the promise of God to his people, Gen 17:6, and children, on this account, being considered as a particular blessing from heaven, Exo 23:20; Lev 26:9 : Psa 127:3; so barrenness was considered among the Jews as a reproach, and a token of the disapprobation of the Lord. Sa1 1:6. But see Luk 1:36.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.