the bible on the immaculate conception andy byler writes on the biblical basis for the dogma of the immaculate conception i will put enmity between you the serpent and the woman and between your seed and her seed she can also be read he shall crush your head and you shall bruise her or his heel genesis he who commits sin is of the devil john hail full of grace greek kecharitomene the lord is with thee luke in the hebrew of genesis the gender is clearly masculine he shall crush your head and you shall bruise his heel the latin has feminine forms only by an accident of grammar andrew stated that kecharitomene means not just full of grace but having a plenitude or perfection of grace the word is used elsewhere in the new testament only in ephesians unto the praise of the glory of his grace in which he hath graced us in his beloved son rheims douay translation i cannot find any indication in my dictionary that the verb implies anything as strong as andrew suggests nor does the ephesians passage suggest that the verb means to preserve from any taint of original or actual sin from the first moment of existence i should like to see a comment on the meaning of the verb preferably not from s writer who is discussing luke at the moment yours james kiefer
