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  "title": "Cinderella and Mary's song of reversal",
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      "exact": "the Magnificat--_exaltavit humiles._",
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  "body_markdown": "The Latin is an exact fragment of Luke 1:52: ‘and he has exalted the humble.’ The Magnificat is Mary's song in Luke 1:46–55, named from its opening Latin verb, *magnificat*. Its immediate context sharpens Chesterton's comparison: God scatters the proud, removes the powerful, raises the lowly and feeds the hungry. [Luke 1:46–55](https://vulgate.org/nt/gospel/luke_1.htm). In the Perrault-derived ‘Cinderella’ printed in Andrew Lang's *The Blue Fairy Book* (1889; inspected in Gutenberg's electronic transcription), the despised household servant marries the prince and forgives her sisters. [Story's conclusion](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/503/pg503-images.html). Chesterton identifies a shared reversal of rank and pride; he is making an interpretive comparison, not claiming that Luke supplied the tale's historical source.",
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      "title": "Latin Vulgate, Luke 1, with Douay-Rheims English",
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      "title": "Andrew Lang, editor, The Blue Fairy Book",
      "locator": "‘Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper,’ final paragraphs and attribution ‘Charles Perrault’; collection first published 1889; Project Gutenberg #503 electronic transcription",
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    "No claim that the modern electronic witnesses identify Chesterton's own Bible or fairy-book copy."
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        "question": "What does exaltavit humiles quote, and what connects its original context with Cinderella?"
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        "approach": "Assumed knowledge and unusual language",
        "question": "How closely do the Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty morals follow an available pre-1908 fairy-tale witness?"
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