Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Holy Ghost—(See on Matthew 1:18).
power of the highest—the immediate energy of the Godhead conveyed by the Holy Ghost.
overshadow—a word suggesting how gentle, while yet efficacious, would be this Power [BENGEL]; and its mysterious secrecy, withdrawn, as if by a cloud, from human scrutiny [CALVIN].
that holy thing born of thee—that holy Offspring of thine.
therefore . . . Son of God—That Christ is the Son of God in His divine and eternal nature is clear from all the New Testament; yet here we see that Sonship efflorescing into human and palpable manifestation by His being born, through "the power of the Highest," an Infant of days. We must neither think of a double Sonship, as some do, harshly and without all ground, nor deny what is here plainly expressed, the connection between His human birth and His proper personal Sonship.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 1:35:
Isaiah 61:1
Jeremiah 31:22
Daniel 2:34
Micah 5:2
Matthew 1:18
Luke 1:26
John 1:14
Romans 1:4
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