And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah;
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Bede
AD 735
She went so that she could offer her congratulations concerning the gift which she had learned her fellow servant had received. This was not in order to prove the word of the angel by the attestation of a woman. Rather it was so that as an attentive young virgin she might commit herself to ministry to a woman of advanced age.
