Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 1:37

37 For with God nothing shall be unpossible.

What a particular notice doth God take of the Children of Men? he knoweth our Relations. Thy Cousin Elizabeth. Here some make a question how Elizabeth, who v. 1. was one of the Daughters of Aaron, and consequently of the Tribe of Levi, could be Cousin to Mary, who was of the house of David, and consequently of the Tribe of Iuda, (as our Evangelist proveth Chap. 3.) because of the Law Num. 36.6.7. But Cousin may be taken in a large sense as Paul calleth all the Jews his kinsmen, Rom. 9.10. or they might be Cousins in astrict sense, for the Daughters of the Tribe of Levi, might marry into any other Tribes, having no inheritance to carry away, to prevent which was the Law, Num. 36. And this is the sixth Month, &c. from her conception, by which time Women use to be at some certainty about their Quickening, you must not therefore think this impossible, for you know Elizabeth was counted barren, and was old, yet she hath conceived. And with God nothing is impossible. I bring you a message from God, to whom all things are possible. This was an ordinary saying, amongst them, Nothing is impossible with God. Our Saviour useth it several times Mark 10.27. Matth. 19.26. Nor needed we any Scripture to prove that nothing could be impossible to him who is the first Being, the first Cause, and the Fountain of all Power, and to whom all things are subject. No considerate Man will from hence conclude that things are possible to God, which would derogate from the perfection of the Divine being, and are imperfections in us. Nor yet that any thing is possible to God, the co[illegible: 1 letter]trary to which he hath willed but God can do whatsoever he can will.

Marginal references: Gen. 18.14. Jer. 32.17. Chap. 18.27.