mariologydogmati00pohl - Carmel Apologetics
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MARY'S FULNESS OF GRACE 35<br />
and D*, sea). 53 On purely linguistic grounds "Mary"<br />
may also be derived from Marjam, i. e., the bitter, or,<br />
figuratively, the sorrowful one (amara, afßicta).<br />
Since the etymological derivation of the name is, and<br />
most likely will always remain doubtful, its typical and<br />
historic interpretation deserves all the more attention.<br />
* Mirjam [i. e., the sister of Moses as a type of the<br />
mother of God] was the Israelite; Mary — as the anti-<br />
thesis between herself and Eve shows — is the Christian.<br />
Mirjam was par excellence ' she who had been healed<br />
[of leprosy] in the Old Testament, an earnest of God's<br />
fidelity in keeping His promises; Mary is preeminently<br />
1<br />
she who has been redeemed,' the token of salvation.<br />
As a member of the human race, a child of Adam, Mary,<br />
like the rest of us, had need of being redeemed. Had<br />
not our Lord in a most unique manner become her<br />
Redeemer, she too would have been overwhelmed by the<br />
bitter flood of original sin. . . . But as the old Testa-<br />
ment Mirjam was preeminently the one who had been<br />
healed, so the New Testament Mary is preeminently the<br />
one who has been endowed with grace. It is for this<br />
reason that the Angel reassured her [Luke I, 30] :<br />
' Fear<br />
not, Mary, for thou hast found grace (x°-P iV ) w *tn<br />
God.'<br />
34<br />
Readings : — *P. Canisius, S. J., De Maria Virgine Incomparabili<br />
et Dei Genitrice, Ingolstadt 1577 (reprinted in Migne,<br />
Summa Aurea de Laudibus B. V. Mariae, Paris 1866).— G. Ventura,<br />
S. J., La Madre di Dio Madre degli Uomini, 2nd ed., Rome<br />
33 The popular title " Stella ther information see Knabenbauer,<br />
maris " (star of the sea) is a cor- Comment, in Matth., Vol. I, pp.<br />
rupted reading of stilla maris. It 43 sqq., Paris 1892; Bucceroni,<br />
goes back to the time of St. Jerome. Commentarii, 4th ed., pp. 80 sqq.;<br />
34 AI. Schaefer, Die Gottesmutter Bardenhewer, Der Name Maria.<br />
in der Hl. Schrift, pp. 142 sqq., Geschichte der Deutung desselben,<br />
2nd ed., Münster 1900. English tr. Freiburg 1895; Minocchi, II Nome<br />
by Brossart, p. 149. For fur- di Maria, Florence 1897.