We usually flicker past her storyline as the old barren woman who gave birth to John the Baptist; the convenient character that propels the drama in the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke. (rachelheldevans.com)
A clue to understanding the Virgin Birth, the line of barren women, and the divine inversion more generally, comes in this line: «For not by might shall a man prevail.» (firstthings.com)
Mary's virgin conception, as it were, is the telos of the conceptions by barren women in the Scriptures. (firstthings.com)