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Luke 1:6

righteous One of the oldest terms of high praise among the Jews (Genesis 6:9; Genesis 7:1; Genesis 18:23-28. See Psalms 37:37; Ezekiel 18:5-19, &c.). It is used also of Joseph, Matthew 1:19; and is defined in the following words in the almost technical sense of strict legal observance which it had acquired since the days of the Maccabees. The true Jashar (upright man) was the ideal Jew. Thus Rashi calls the Book of Genesis -the book of the upright, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

in all the commandments and ordinances The two words occur in the LXX. version of Genesis 26:5 (of Abraham) and 2 Chronicles 17:4 (of Jehoshaphat). - Commandments" means the moral precepts of natural and revealed religion (Romans 7:8-13). - Ordinances" had come to be technically used of the ceremonialLaw (Hebrews 9:1). The distinctions were not accurately kept, but the two words together would, to a pious Jew of that day, have included all the positive and negative precepts which later Rabbis said were 613 in number, namely 248 positive, and 365 negative.

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