Mary in Scripture
Which book portrays Mary as “the Ark of the New Covenant”?
What is Revelation?
This classification foreshadows the persons, places, and events of the Old Testament to the persons, places, and events of the New Testament.
What is Typology?
This dogma teaches that Mary was preserved from original sin.
What is the Immaculate Conception?
The final words spoken by Mary in scripture
What is “Do whatever He tells you”?
These are the three typologies of Mary.
What are the ark of the new covenant, the new eve, and the Queen Mother
The meaning of the Greek word “kecharitomene” used at the Annunciation by Gabriel
What is “full of grace” or an already established state of complete grace (it was not given to her at a later time)? Only used in this instance in scripture
The cloud overshadowing the Tabernacle in Exodus parallels this event in Mary’s life.
What is the Annunciation?
This was the first official Marian dogma defined by the Church
What is Mary as the Mother of God?- (instituted to combat the hearsay that Jesus' divine nature could not be separated from his human nature)
****DAILY DOUBLE!!!!****
Mary appears in this event in Acts, praying with the Apostles.
What is Pentecost? Also known as the birthday of the Church
Hahn emphasizes that Marian doctrine is always connected to this person.
Who is Jesus?
The Visitation mirrors this Old Testament figure bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem.
Who is David?
These are the four biblical events that mention the “woman”.
What are Genesis, The wedding at Cana, The Crucifixion and Revelation?
The ideology between the serpent and the woman in Genesis 3:15, proves the biblical foundation for the dogma of the immaculate conception
What is the enmity placed between them by God? Satan would have already won the battle over Mary had she had the stain original sin
The biblical event we first see Mary interceding for the Church?
What is the Wedding at Cana?
Just as the Ark of the Covenant held the word of God in stone, Mary (New Ark) held the Word made this.
What is flesh?
Mary’s Magnificat declaring herself the “handmaid of the Lord” echoes this barren woman’s prayer in 1 Samuel.
Who is Hannah?
These are the three roles of the queen mother in the Davidic kingdom
What are advisor to the king, intercessor on the people’s behalf, and a visible sign of the legitimacy of the king’s rule (by linking him to the previous king)?
The 4 Marian Dogmas
What are 1.Mary as Mother of God 2. The immaculate conception 3. The Assumption 4. Ever-virginal/Perpetual Virginity
Who Revelation refers to as the other offspring of the woman?
The people of God, the Church. Those who, as we’re told in Revelation 12:17, “keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus.”
Words spoken in Luke 1 that serve as scriptural evidence for the title “Mother of God”.
The Visitation recorded in Luke 1:43 when Elizabeth greeted Mary with the queenly title, “ "And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?"
The Gospel where Mary is most clearly presented as the “New Eve.”
What is the Gospel of John?
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These four women had miraculous pregnancies foreshadowing Mary’s miraculous conception of Jesus
Who are Sarah, Rebekah, Hannah and Elizabeth?
The two-part Catholic response to why Jesus was referred to as “first born” in Luke 2:7 does not disprove Mary's virginity.
What are 1.The term “firstborn” was a legal term in ancient Israel that applied to the child who “opened the womb.” It applied to that child regardless of whether or not the mother had any more children. 2. The Hebrew word “brother” is a far more inclusive word than its English counterpart: it means “near male relative” which can include cousins, uncles, great uncles, etc. In Hebrew, there is no word for “cousin.”
Three locations the covenant is held throughout scripture and in the church?
What are the ark of the covenant, Mary as Ark of the New Covenant, and the Tabernacle in every Catholic Church
Two scriptural parallels between the Ark of the Old Covenant and Mary, Ark of the New
Luke describes Mary’s decision to visit Elizabeth in terms similar to the account of David’s decision to move the Ark to Jerusalem in 2 Samuel (2 Sam 6:2; Lk 1:56).
John the Baptist leaps in his mother’s womb when Mary visits, just like David leaped and danced before the Ark (2 Sam 6:14–16; Lk 1:41–43).
Elizabeth cries out, “And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” echoing David’s words when he realized the great privilege of having the Ark go to him (2 Sam 6:9; Lk 1:41–43).
Mary stays with Elizabeth for about three months, just like the Ark stayed with Obed-edom for three months (2 Sam 6:11; Lk 1:56).
Furthermore, Luke says that Elizabeth “exclaimed with a loud cry” when she expressed her joy at Mary’s arrival, using a Greek word found nowhere else in the New Testament. However, it’s found five times in the Greek translation of the Old Testament, each time showing up in connection with the Ark of the Covenant (Lk 1:42).
Finally, Elizabeth was a Levite, so by lifting up her voice in praise of God, who was contained within Mary, she did what her priestly ancestors did when they praised God present in the Ark (see Lk 1:5).