Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Second Homily
For the Christ who was born of the Virgin, and who is our God, has given over the whole inheritance of divine blessings to the Gentiles. "He hath holpen His servant Israel."[37]
Verse 54. _HE HATH HOLPEN_ [_supported_, αντελαβετο] _HIS SERVANT_ _ISRAEL_] Israel is here represented as _falling_, and the Lord comes speedily in and _props_ him up. The house of David was now read...
HATH HOLPEN - Hath helped or assisted. The word rendered “holpen” denotes properly, “to take hold of one, to help him up when he is in danger of falling,” and here means that God had succored his peop...
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...
MARY VISITS ELISABETH. THE MAGNIFICAT. The passage links the two preceding incidents, and serves to show the inferiority of John the forerunner, to Jesus the Messiah. Mary (finding herself with child)...
And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has exulted in God, my Saviour, because he looked graciously on the humble estate of his servant. For--look you--from now on all generations s...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
HOLPEN. laid hold of [for help], or taken by the hand. Compare Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 41:9. IN REMEMBRANCE. [in order] to remember....
The Magnificat 46. _And Mary said_ This chapter is remarkable for preserving a record of two inspired hymns the _Magnificat_and the _Benedictus_which have been used for more than a thousand years in t...
_hath holpen_ Literally, "took by the hand." Isaiah 41:8-9, LXX. The proper punctuation of the following words is TO REMEMBER HIS MERCY ( EVEN AS HE SPAKE TO (πρὸς) OUR FATHERS) TO (τῷ) ABRAHAM AND HI...
THE MAGNIFICAT...
ἈΝΤΕΛΆΒΕΤΟ. Literally, “took by the hand.” Isaiah 41:8-9, LXX[38] The proper rendering of the following words is ‘to remember mercy—(even as He spake to (πρὸς) our fathers)—toward (τῷ) Abraham and his...
VER 54. HE HAS HOLPEN HIS SERVANT ISRAEL, IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS MERCY; 55. AS HE SPOKE TO OUR FATHERS, ABRAHAM, AND TO HIS SEED FOR EVER. GLOSS. After a general mention of the Divine mercy and holine...
_THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS ANNOUNCED -- LUKE 1:26-56:_ A month after the announcement of John's birth God sent Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee with a message for a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to a...
ΆΝΤΕΛΆΒΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΝΤΙΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G482) _med._ подхватывать кого-л. в знак поддержки или помощи; помогать, приходить на выручку кому-л., с _gen._ в роли _obj._ (Plummer; BAGD; об испо...
HE HATH HOLPEN— 'Αντελαβετο, here translated _He hath holpen,_ signifies properly "supporting a thing that is falling, by taking hold of it on the falling side." The virgin's meaning therefore was, th...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Predictions of the Redeemer (Luke 1:26-56) 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Mary Visited Elizabeth Scripture_ Luke 1:39-56 And Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; 40 and entered into the house of Zac...
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; HE HATH HOLPEN HIS SERVANT ISRAEL, IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS MERCY. Compare , "I have laid help on One that is mighty....
18 Zacharias does not believe the glad news. Hence he is stricken dumb, for unbelief has no right to speak of the things of God. 19 Gabriel gave Daniel the explanation of two of his visions (Dan_8:16...
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...
MARY'S VISIT TO ELISABETH. THE MAGNIFICAT. This beautiful narrative must be derived from Mary herself, probably directly. It is told as vividly and minutely after a lapse of half-a-century as if it we...
THE MAGNIFICAT. This glorious song of praise, which has been used in the services of the Church from early times, tells us more than anything else in the NT. of the character of our Lord's mother, and...
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...
HE HATH HOLPEN HIS SERVANT ISRAEL. — Up to this point the hymn has been one of personal thanks-giving. Now we find that all the soul of the maiden of Nazareth is with her people. Her joy in the “great...
_Mary's song_. μεγαλύνει : _magnificat_, Vulg [10], whence the ecclesiastical name for this hymn, which has close affinities with the song of Hanna in 1 Samuel 2:1-10; variously regarded by critics: b...
ἀντελάβετο : laid hold: of with a view to help, as in Isaiah 41:8-9; Acts 20:35; 1 Timothy 6:2. _cf._ ἰπιλαμβάνεται, Hebrews 2:16. μνησθῆναι ἐλέους, κ
THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER Luke 1:39-56 Zacharias lived in a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah. The narrative evidently implies that there had been no previous communication between the...
(b) He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of [his] mercy; (b) He has helped Israel up with his arm, who had been completely cast down....
MARY'S SUBMISSION 34-38. _“And Mary said, Behold the handmaiden of the Lord: may it he unto me according to thy word.”_ Good Lord, give us the faith of Mary, that we may perfectly submit to Thy Word a...
THIRD NARRATIVE: MARY'S VISIT TO ELIZABETH, LUKE 1:39-56. This narrative is, as it were, the synthesis of the two preceding. These two divinely favoured women meet and pour forth their hearts. 1. Arr...
3. _The song of Mary: Luke 1:46-56_. Elizabeth's salutation was full of excitement (_she spake out with a loud voice_), but Mary's hymn breathes a sentiment of deep inward repose. The greater happines...
Luke 1:54-55. Mary celebrates in this last strophe the faithfulness of God. That, in fact, is the foundation of the whole Messianic work. If the preceding strophe unveils to us the future developments...
(39) And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; (40) And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. (41) And it came to pass, that,...
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 SONG OF THE VIRGIN_ ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord.… As He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.’ Luke 1:46 Next to the Lord’s Prayer, perhaps, few passages of Scripture...
54._He hath lifted up his servant Israel _In this last clause the general statements are applied by Mary to the present occasion. The meaning is, God has now granted the salvation which he had formerl...
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...
HE HATH HOLPEN HIS SERVANT ISRAEL,.... Meaning, not the natural posterity of Jacob, or Israel in general, but the elect of God among them; for all were not Israel, who were of Israel; and not them onl...
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of _his_ mercy; Ver. 54. _He hath holpen his servant_] He hath put under his hand, and raised him prostrate, taken him up at his feet, αντελαβετο. Th...
_He hath put down the mighty from their seats_ The mighty think to secure themselves by might in their seats, but he puts them down and overturns their seats; while, on the other hand, those of low de...
HE HATH HOLPEN HIS SERVANT ISRAEL IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIS MERCY;...
The hymn of Mary:...
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...
39-56 It is very good for those who have the work of grace begun in their souls, to communicate one to another. On Mary's arrival, Elisabeth was conscious of the approach of her who was to be the mot...
Ver. 54,55. In these verses the blessed virgin celebrates God's mercy together with his truth, withal she hath here a respect to God's particular goodness and mercy in the sending of the Redeemer. The...
Luke 1:54 helped G482 (G5633) His G846 servant G3816 Israel G2474 remembrance G3415 (G5683) mercy G1656...
ON THE HARMONY with the account in Matthew. Views: 1. That the events recorded in Matthew 1:18-25 took place before the visit to Elisabeth. It is urged that a betrothed virgin would not be permitted t...
Luke 1:54. HE HATH HOLPEN, i.e., helped, ISRAEL HIS SERVANT. This sums up what had before been described (Luke 1:51-53)....
HATH HOLPEN (αντελαβετο). Second aorist middle indicative. A very common verb. It means to lay hold of with a view to help or succour.SERVANT (παιδος). Here it means "servant," not "son" or "chil...
Luke 1:46. _And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour._ The burden of Mary's Magnificat is very similar to Hannah's song, though there was one respec...
Luke 1:39. _And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; and entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, whe...
Luke 1:26. _And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgi...
Luke 1:5. _There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they...
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,...
MARY SAID. Mary is also filled with the Holy Spirit. These two holy women are the first human prophets of the New Testament Age. Mary speaks the language of the Psalms. In Luke 1:46-49, she praises Go...
_My soul doth magnify the Lord_ MARY’S SONG Mary was on a visit when she expressed her joy in the language of this noble song. It were well if all our social intercourse were as useful to our hearts...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:46 Mary’s song of praise traditionally has been called the “Magnificat,” based on the Latin for the opening word, “magnifies.” The Magnificat is the first of three hymns in chs. Lu...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:50 FEAR. Reverent, humble obedience that seeks to please God. The second reason for Mary’s praise is introduced by HE HAS SHOWN STRENGTH WITH HIS ARM, a tribute to God’s power....
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...
_He hath holpen His servant Israel. _...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 1:39. CITY OF JUDAH.—The city is not named. Probably it was not Hebron, as a place so well known would most likely have been named. The conjecture that Judah is a corruption of J...
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...
Isaiah 44:21; Isaiah 46:3; Isaiah 46:4; Isaiah 49:14; Isaiah 54:6;...
Hath holpen [α ν τ ε λ α β ε τ ο]. The verb means to lay hold on : thence to grasp helpfully or to help. To lay hold in the sense of partaking (1 Timothy 6:2), carries us back to the primitive meaning...
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...
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...
He hath helped his servant Israel — By sending the Messiah....