wards off the very presence of evil.5 “If a king constructed a house or a city,” he goes on to observe, “and it is attacked by bandits because of the carelessness of its inhabitants, he in no way abandons it, but avenges and saves it as his own work, having regard not for the carelessness of the inhabitants but for his own honor.”6 Jesus’ incarnation and work of redemption are thus far more momentous than we might imagine. In Mary’s Song (1:46–55)—commonly known as the Magnificat—Mary, in response