Annunciation, Baptist’s leap, Simeon’s salvation — Christ is God

Mary said to the angel: “How will this be for me, since I do not know a man?” And answering, the angel said to her: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the holy one to be born will also be called Son of God.” So then — is the one born ineffably through the Spirit from the holy virgin only called Son, as if created, or is he believed to be Son by nature and truly, and God? This is true. So let the Word be understood as having become flesh hypostatically — that is, having made his own the flesh from the holy virgin through the Spirit. For in this way he will also be truly God.

“And when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” When God works the gift of prophecy, someone becomes a prophet; in any other way, not at all. So when the greeting of the holy virgin Mary, still carrying Jesus, moved John in the womb into prophecy, how is Christ not God — who even in the virgin’s womb moved the Baptist in a God-befitting way into the power of prophecy?

“Now you dismiss your servant, Master, according to your word in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared before the face of all the peoples, a light for revelation to the nations and glory of your people Israel.” Taking Jesus into his arms, Simeon says such things about him. So how is he salvation? And how a light for revelation to the nations — unless he is truly God and only Son by nature…