Section 7
Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; where fore also the holy thing which is born will be called, Son of God." As the cloud overshadowed the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:5) and the tabernacle (Exo. 40:34, 38), the power of the Most High would overshadow Mary. It seems that, according to this verse, the Holy Spirit would be only upon Mary as the power for her to conceive the Holy Child. However, Matthew 1:18 and 20 tell us that Mary "was found having in womb out of the Holy Spirit" (lit.), and "the thing begotten (generated) in her is out of the Holy Spirit" (lit.). This indicates that the divine essence out of the Holy Spirit had been gener ated in Mary's womb before she delivered the Child Jesus. Such a conception of the Holy Spirit in the human virgin, accomplished with both the divine and the human essences, constitutes a mingling of the divine nature with the human nature, producing a God-man, one who is both the complete God and perfect Man, possessing the divine nature and the human nature distinc tively, without a third nature being produced. This is the most wonderful and most excellent Person of Jesus—Jehovah the Savior.
The conception of John the Baptist and that