Francis Patrick Kenrick

The Greek terra is the perfect participle, in the passive voice, of the verb which signifies to render pleasing, or to endow ivith grace. Eph. i. 6. It might be rendered : endowed with grace. Verbs in that form often signify a fulness, or abundance, Luke xvi. 20, whence the ancient inter- preter rendered it: full of grace. Campbell renders it: "favorite of heaven." Bloomfield remarks : " This is not well rendered ' beloved,* or ' favorite of heaven,' as in Campbell's version. Better (as in the Vulgate) '^ gratia plena'' . . . For (as Valckn observes) all verbs of this form, as atiuatow, 6u.v^o,t:6u>, &c., have a sense of heaping up, or render- ing full.'''' St. Ambrose remarks : " This salutation was reserved to Mary alone: for she alone is properly styled full of grace, since she alone obtained the grace which none other had deserved, to be filled with the Author of grace."