could not receive it, and she made her protestation. Indeed, she virtually suggested to the angel that what he was saying was quite impossible. But the angel reminded her that ‘with God nothing shall be impossible’, that she must not think in those terms and in those categories. She must realise that here she was in a different realm: that he was no ordinary human emissary, nor the bearer of a message from any earthly or human power, but that he was the messenger of God. Then, as a result of that,