11. And so, too, when Gabriel visited
her, S. Luke i. 28. did he find her, and Mary trembled,
being disturbed, as though at the form of a man, but on hearing his
name recognized him as one not unknown to her. And so she was a
stranger as to men, but not as to the angel; that we might know that
her ears were modest and her eyes bashful. Then when saluted she
kept silence, and when addressed she answered, and she whose feelings
were first troubled afterwards promised obedience.