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Luke 1:76
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways;
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways;
Verse Luke 1:76. _AND THOU, CHILD_, c.] Zacharias proclaims the dignity, employment, doctrine, and success of his son and the ruin and recovery of the Jews and the Gentiles. 1. His _dignity_. _Thou s...
AND THOU, CHILD ... - Zechariah predicts in this and the following verses the dignity, the employment, and the success of John. He declares what would be the subject of his preaching, and what his suc...
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE Analysis and Annotations I. The Birth and Childhood -- Chapter 1-2:52 CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Introduction. (Luke 1:1)_ 2. Zacharias and Elizabeth; the Vision. (Luke 1:5) 3. John th...
THE BIRTH OF JOHN. THE BENEDICTAS. In due course Elisabeth bore her son and received the congratulations of her friends. When the babe has been circumcised and named, his mother rejects the proposal t...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied like this: "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has graciously visited his people and wrought deliverance for them. H...
BEFORE. Greek. _pro._ App-104....
_child_ Rather, LITTLE CHILD (_paidion_) "quantillus nunc es," Bengel. _To prepare his ways_ An allusion to the prophecies of the Forerunner in Isaiah 40:3; Malachi 3:1....
The Birth of John the Baptist 58. _her cousins_ Rather, HER KINSFOLK, which was the original meaning of the word _cousins_(_con-sobrini_). See Luke 1:36....
ΠΑΙΔΊΟΝ. ‘little child’—“quantillus nunc es,” Bengel. From this diminutive is derived our word ‘page.’ ΠΡῸ ΠΡΟΣΏΠΟΥ. Redundant, like the Hebrew לִפְנֵי. ἙΤΟΙΜΆΣΑΙ ὉΔΟῪΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. An allusion to the p...
THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST...
VER 76. AND YOU, CHILD, SHALL BE CALLED THE PROPHET OF THE HIGHEST: FOR YOU SHALL GO BEFORE THE FACE OF THE LORD TO PREPARE HIS WAYS. AMBROSE; In prophesying of the Lord he rightly addresses the prop...
_THE BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE OF JOHN -- LUKE 1:57-80:_ When Elizabeth's son was born her relatives and neighbors came on the eighth day to circumcise him. They called him Zacharias after the name of his...
ΚΛΗΘΉΣΗ _fut. ind. pass._ 2 _pers. sing., см._ Luke 1:13. Здесь: "признанный кем-л." ибо призыв содержит обозначение того, кем является ребенок (ТВМ, 372). ΠΡΟΠΟΡΕΎΣΗ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) 2 pers. s...
AND THOU, CHILD,— Zacharias here either pointed to John, or took him in his arms: the _messenger_ or forerunner in Malachi was to be a prophet; Zacharias says of his son, _Thou shalt be called the pro...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 5 Paean of Redemption (Luke 1:57-80) 57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a Song of Solomon 5, Song of Solomon 58And her neighbors an
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; Here are the dying echoes of this song: and very beautiful are these...
56 Miriam remains with Elizabeth until it is time for John to be born. Though nothing further is told us of their communion, we may easily imagine the overflowing fullness of joy which characterized t...
1:76 Lord (a-21) 'Jehovah.'...
BIRTH OF JOHN. THE ANNUNCIATION 1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true Gentile, trained in Greek cult...
Birth and childhood of the Baptist. The Benedictus. 59. The eighth day] Circumcision took place on the eighth day, even though it was the sabbath: see John 7:22. At the circumcision of a child the cir...
THE BENEDICTUS. 'This song, which was composed in the priest's mind during the time of his silence, broke solemnly from his lips the moment speech was restored to him, as the metal flows from the cruc...
OF THE LORD] Zacharias understood it of Jehovah; Christians understand it of Christ. 77. This v. well describes the character of John's ministry, which joined the announcement of the Kingdom with the...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ THE AUTHOR Luke wrote two books of the *New Testament (NT). Luke’s *Gospel tells the story of the life and work of Jesus. Luke’s second book, Acts, continues...
THOU, CHILD, SHALT BE CALLED THE PROPHET OF THE HIGHEST. — Note the recurrence of the same divine name that had appeared in Luke 1:32; Luke 1:35. THOU SHALT GO BEFORE THE FACE OF THE LORD. — The verse...
CHAPTER 2 THE MUTE PRIEST. Luke 1:5; Luke 1:57. AFTER his personal prelude, our Evangelist goes on to give in detail the pre-Advent revelations, so connecting the thread of his narrative with the br...
_The song of Zechariah_, called from the first word of it in the Vulgate the _Benedictus_. It is usually divided into five strophes, but it is more obviously divisible into two main parts, Luke 1:67-7...
_From the general thanksgiving for Divine mercy the song turns to the special cause of gladness afforded by the birth of John_. σὺ, παιδίον : this address supposes the Baptist to be still a child, and...
THE SONG AT THE HERALD'S BIRTH Luke 1:57-80 This song is second only to that of Mary. It is a noble ode, tracing our Lord's advent back to the early covenant of God with the fathers and anticipating...
And thou, (m) child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; (m) Though you be at this present time ever so little....
ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT 68-75. “Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, because he hath interposed and wrought redemption for His people, and raised up a horn of s...
FOURTH NARRATIVE: BIRTH AND CIRCUMCISION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, LUKE 1:57-80. Here opens the second cycle of the narratives of the infancy. This first narration comprises 1. The birth of John (Luke 1:57...
3. _The song of Zacharias: Luke 1:67-80_. It might be supposed that Zacharias composed this song in view of the religious and moral progress of the child, or on the occasion of some special event in w...
2 _d. Luke 1:76-77_. From the height to which he has just attained, Zacharias allows his glance to fall upon the little child at rest before him, and he assigns him his part in the work which has begu...
(67) And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, (68) Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: for he hath visited and redeemed his people, (69) And hath raised up an ho...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_THE PROPHET OF THE HIGHEST_ ‘And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest.’ Luke 1:76 In the passage, Luke 1:76, we have the song of a father dedicating the infant child to missiona...
76._And thou, child _Zacharias again returns to commend the grace of Christ, but does this, as it were, in the person of his son, by describing briefly the office to which he had been appointed as an...
Many had undertaken to give an account of that which was historically received among Christians, as related to them by the companions of Jesus; and Luke thought it well having followed these things fr...
AND THOU, CHILD, SHALT BE CALLED THE PROPHET OF THE HIGHEST,.... Here Zacharias turns himself to his son John, though an infant, and incapable of knowing what was said to him; and for the sake of thos...
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; Ver. 76. _And thou, child_] _scil._ _qui nunc tantillus es, in virum ma...
_And thou child_ He now speaks to John his son, yet not as a parent, but as a prophet; _shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest_ Thou shalt be the messenger of God Most High. Our Lord declares that...
THOU, CHILD; John. PREPARE HIS WAYS; ISAIAH 40:3; MALACHI 4:5; MATTHEW 3:3....
LUKE'S GOSPEL WRITTEN FOR A GENTILE RULER (vs.1-4) Luke's introduction shows that, though he was concerned about giving exact information in this letter to Theophilus, he had not thought of being an...
67-80 Zacharias uttered a prophecy concerning the kingdom and salvation of the Messiah. The gospel brings light with it; in it the day dawns. In John the Baptist it began to break, and increased apac...
Zacharias here foretells what came to pass about thirty years after, for it cannot be thought that John began his ministry before the sacerdotal age, especially considering Christ did not begin sooner...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Then he says to John: "And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare HiS ways; to give knowl...
Luke 1:76 And G2532 you G4771 child G3813 called G2564 (G5701) prophet G4396 Highest G5310 For G1063 go...
Luke 1:76. YEA AND THOU, CHILD. in accordance with the great blessing already spoken. Zacharias, as a father, speaks o£ his son, as a prophet he foretells the career of the last and greatest of the pr...
The fulfilment of the angelic promise to Zacharias in the birth of John, the obedience of the parents in calling the child by the appointed name, and the removal of the dumbness of Zacharias at the ti...
YEA AND THOU (κα συ δε). Direct address to the child with forecast of his life (cf. Luke 1:13-17).PROPHET (προφητης). The word here directly applied to the child. Jesus will later call John a pro...
CONTENTS: Birth of John the Baptist foretold. Virgin birth of Jesus foretold. Mary's visit to Elizabeth. Mary's praise because of Jehovah's favor. Birth of John the Baptist. CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit,...
Luke 1:1. _Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things,_ which within a short compass of years have been acted and accomplished among us. In the first age,...
YOU, MY CHILD. Zechariah's prophecy points to John's future role. A PROPHET OF THE MOST HIGH GOD. John would be the greatest of the Old Testament prophets [not counting Jesus himself]. See what Jesus...
_And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost_ THE SONG OF ZACHARIAS I. Preliminary questions. In the opening portion of St. Luke’s Gospel, there is a definiteness of time, place, and cir...
_Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should he delivered_ THE NATIVITY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST That which was miraculous at the beginning became natural towards the close. This is seen in the case o...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:68 Zechariah’s prophecy is a single sentence in Greek. It is often called the “Benedictus,” from its first word in Latin. Like the Magnificat (see note on vv. 46–55), the Benedictu...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:76 KNOWLEDGE OF SALVATION. Such knowledge results in a change of heart and behavior (e.g., “repentance”; compare Luke 3:7)....
VER. 35. _And the Angel answered... the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee_, &c. Mark here that the Incarnation is limited only to the Person of the Word, or Son of God: for He alone was incarnate and ma...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 1:58. COUSINS.—Rather, “kinsfolk,” which was the original meaning of “cousins.” HOW THE LORD.—Rather, “that the Lord” (R.V.). Luke 1:59. ON THE EIGHTH DAY.—The stated time for a...
EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever be an interesting study. Here we shall never know the exact...
Luke, the author of this third gospel, was called by Paul the apostle "the beloved physician." There is some speculation that his patron was a man by the name of Theophilus. In those days physicians w...
Acts 13:24; Acts 13:25; Acts 16:17; Isaiah 40:3; John 1:23;...
THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS _Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
THE REVELATIONS OF GOD Luke 1:5 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This is the Gospel that emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of Man. It wi...
And thou, child — He now speaks to John; yet not as a parent, but as a prophet....