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the new Ezekiel, for she <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>announces with greatest clarity and joy the coming of the Messiah.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">What
 was only vaguely foreseen in those great prophetic figures is now in 
clear focus: <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>“He has shown the strength of his arm; he has scattered the
 proud in their conceit; he has filled the hungry with good things and 
the rich he has sent away empty. He has come to the help of his servant 
Israel, for he has remembered his promise of mercy, the promise he made 
to our fathers, to Abraham and his children forever.”</b></span> There is nothing 
stronger or more beautiful in any of the prophets.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Mary
 is the true Israel, and she knows what to do and how to do it with 
enthusiasm. No <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">dawdling, backpedaling, straying, or complaining</span>: she 
moves, she goes. </b><b>And she goes upon the heights (the “hill country” </b></span>that 
Luke describes),<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> which is exactly where God had always summoned Israel, 
so that it could be a light to the nations.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div>

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