Luke 1:52

He hath put down the mighty from their seats Rather, He puts down potentates from thrones. The aorists throughout are gnomic, i. e. they do not express single but normalacts. The thought is common throughout the Bible, e. g. Luke 18:14; Dan 4:30; 1 Samuel 2:6-10; Psalms 113:6-8; 1 Corinthians 1:26-29. The ancients noticed the fact (κύκλος τῶν ἀνθρωπηΐων ἐστὶ πρηγμάτων, Hdt. i. 207; "Irus et est subito qui modo Croesus erat," Ov. Trist.iii. vii. 41) but did not draw the true lessons from it.