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Luke 1:68-75

Let us praise the Lord. Zechariah's prophecy is in Hebrew thought and idiom. This shows the influence that molded John's character as he grew up as Zechariah's son. A mighty savior for us. Compare Philippians 2:6-11. By means of his holy prophets. The symbolism and rituals of the Old Testament point to Jesus. He was the totality of all their predictions! Jesus was Abraham's promised Descendant; Moses' Prophet; Isaiah's Emmanuel; Ezekiel's Shepherd; Daniel's Holy One: all these and others, pointing to his Coming. Vowed that he would rescue us. Zechariah no doubt thinks of the Roman Occupation Troops as he says this. [God's vow is found in Genesis 22:16-17. See Hebrews 6:13-18. The promise was completely fulfilled in the First Coming of Jesus and the climax of the Cross and Resurrection.]

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 68. _BLESSED_ be _the Lord God of Israel; for_, c.] Zacharias praises God for two grand benefits which he had granted to his people. 1. He has _visited_ them. 2. He has _ransomed_ them. 1. He s...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BLESSED - See the notes at Matthew 5:3. HATH VISITED - The word here rendered “visited” means properly “to look upon;” then to look upon in order “to know the state of anyone;” then to visit for the p...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BLESSED. Hence the name "Benedictus" given to Zacharias's prophecy. GOD. the God. VISITED. lookedon. Not the same word as in Luke 1:48. See App-133. REDEEMED. wrought. ransom for. Compare Titus 2:1...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΕΥ̓ΛΟΓΗΤΌΣ. This hymn of praise is hence called the BENEDICTUS. It is expressed (as was natural) almost exclusively in the language of ancient prophecy, Psalms 98:3; Psalms 105:8-9; Psalms 132:17;...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 67. AND HIS FATHER ZACHARIAS WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND PROPHESIED, SAYING, 68. BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL; FOR HE HAS VISITED AND REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE. AMBROSE; God in His mercy an...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΈΠΕΣΚΈΨΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΠΙΣΚΈΠΤΟΜΑΙ (G1980) смотреть на кого-л., навещать, ΛΎΤΡΩΣΙΣ (G3085) искупление, избавление. Без сомнения, это ссылка на избавление в политическом смысле, но соп...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL;— "Let all honour and glory be ascribed to the Possessor and Governor of the world, the God of Israel, _because he hath visited and redeemed his people."_ For God to...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:68 Lord (a-4) 'Jehovah.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. — The whole hymn is, like the _Magnificat,_ pre-eminently Hebrew in character, almost every phrase having its counterpart in Psalm or Prophet; and, like it, has come...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἐπεσκέψατο, visited graciously (_vide_ on Matthew 25:36), occasionally used in Sept [14] in the sense of _judicial_ visitation (Psalms 89:33). Note the use of the _aorist_ there, which runs through Lu...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath (g) visited and (h) redeemed his people, (g) That he has shown himself mindful of his people, to the extent that he came down from heaven himself to v...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “ _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 a hor...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    68._Blessed be the Lord God _Zacharias commences with thanksgiving, and in the raptures of the prophetic spirit describes the fulfillment of the redemption formerly promised in Christ, on which the sa...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,.... This was a form of blessing of long standing, Psalms 72:18 and very likely was in use, more or less, ever since Israel was distinguished from other nations, beca...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Blessed _be_ the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, Ver. 68. _Blessed be the Lord God of Israel_] This is _Hymnus Evangelicissimus, _ say both Bucer and Pellican. A most...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Blessed be the Lord God of Israel_ Who is also the God of the spirits of all flesh: but Zacharias, speaking of the work of redemption calls him only the God of Israel, because to Israel the prophecie...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL; FOR HE HATH VISITED AND REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A hymn of praise:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Ver. 68-70. God is not the God of Israel only, but of all the nations of the earth also; but he is peculiarly called THE GOD OF ISRAEL, both here and in many other places, PSALMS 41:13, PSALMS 72:18 P...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III n the house of His servant David; as He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world begun; salvation from our enemies, and from the hand...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 1:68 Blessed G2128 Lord G2962 God G2316 Israel G2474 For G3754 visited G1980 (G5662) and G2532 redeemed...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Luke 1:68. BLESSED. Latin: _Benedictus_, hence the name. FOR HE HATH VISITED, etc. The past tenses throughout are used because the eye of prophecy regards these certain future events as having alrea...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    HATH VISITED (επεσκεψατο). An old Greek word with a Hebraic colouring to look into with a view to help. The papyri have plenty of examples of the verb in the sense of inspecting, examining.REDEMPTI...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    REDEEMED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:24). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 29:10; 1 Chronicles 29:20; 1 Kings 1:48; 1 Peter 1:3;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

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