mary blessed among women dave bernard writes when elizabeth greeted mary with the words blessed art thou among women luke it appears that this places mary beyond the sanctification of normal humanity but deborah says judges blessed among women shall be jael the wife of heber the kenite blessed above all women in the tents it can doubtless be taken that jael s slaying of sisera was a type of mary s victory over sin but even if we take deborah s words as applying prophetically or symbolically to mary they must still be applicable literally to jael we may well take them to mean that god used her as a part of his plan for the deliverance of his people and that she has this in common with mary but we have no reason to suppose that they mean that she was sinless and thus no reason to take the like expression applied to mary as proof that she was sinless yours james kiefer
