For, lo, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
The babe leaped. Symbolically, the leaping of John prefigured his own martyrdom; for by his dancing he represented the dancing of the daughter of Herodias, by which having pleased Herod, she asked and obtained of him the head of John.
