But Mary said to the angel, How shall this be, since I know not a man?

as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began;

And a woman who had a flux of blood since twelve years, who, having spent all her living on physicians, could not be cured by any one,

since a friend of mine on a journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him;

But we had hoped that he was the one who is about to redeem Israel. But then, besides all these things, it is now, to-day, the third day since these things took place.