{The low estate} (	(886e) tapein(9373)in). The bride of a
carpenter and yet to be the mother of the Messiah. Literal sense
here as in  1:52 . {Shall call me blessed} (makariousin me).
So-called Attic future of an old verb, to felicitate. Elisabeth
had already given her a beatitude (makaria,  1:45 ). Another
occurs in  11:27 . But this is a very different thing from the
worship of Mary (Mariolatry) by Roman Catholics. See my _The
Mother of Jesus: Her Problems and Her Glory_.