By Shimelis Margia
29/07/2004
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“For if the word spoken by angel
was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a jest recompense
of reward, how shall escape” (Heb.2:2-3)
When St. Virgin Mary heard the
greeting of that angel she disturbed, and didn’t understand the accidental
revelation and unfamiliar speech of the angle. But she didn’t try to flee from
hearing the word of the angel. Instead of this, in order to understand the
message of the good tiding, she asked, “How this shall be, seeing I know not
man?
St. Mary knows that to obey the
word of Holy angel brings to her the grace of God; however, the message was
contrasted with her vow that she vowed to God to live as Virgin. Therefore she
asked the angel “seeing I know not a man” that means I vowed to God to continue
as virgin, so how can it be?
The question of St. Mary is
indeed correct. Because cancelling the vow to God is great sin. What says the
bible in Ecclesiastes “better is it that you should not vow, that you should
vow and not pay, suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin.(Ecc.5:4-5)
