Monday, June 27, 2022

Maximus the Confessor (580-662) on Luke 1:30

  

The favor that she had found was the honor and name of Theotokos, for this she was called, and in truth she became the Theotokos. She in fact found great favor with God, for she became the mother of his only-begotten Son. Oh favor exalted beyond all favors, which the mind cannot fathom, which language cannot describe. (Maximus the Confessor, The Life of the Virgin 21 [trans. Stephen J. Shoemaker; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012], 52)