Lazarus from the dead by the sheer power of his fiat. So the word fiat is used to show that Mary is giving a commandment. Those who exalt Mary to a degree of importance beyond what Protestant churches would grant, believe Mary’s fiat was necessary for Jesus to have been born. Nothing could be further from the tone of Mary’s words. Mary was not giving orders to the angel. She was saying, ‘If this is what God wants, then I will do it.’ You may think that there could be nothing greater in all the world