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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Luke 3

Luke 3:1-14

A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Luke 3:1-14 The evangelist sets an emperor, a governor, two high priests, and three tetrarchs in a few lines, as of very subordinate interest, compared with the one man, the child of the desert, whose coming dated a new era and to whom he devotes the remainder of the ch... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 3:15-23

THE HERALD SILENCED; THE MESSIAH APPEARS Luke 3:15-23 We are told that the time of John's appearance was the Sabbatic year, when field-work was suspended, and the people had comparative leisure. In his passion for God, reality and truth, John asked for nothing of men; but men were willing to give... [ Continue Reading ]

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