Luke 1:76

Luke 1:76. Yea and thou, child. in accordance with the great blessing already spoken. Zacharias, as a father, speaks o£ his son, as a prophet he foretells the career of the last and greatest of the prophets; but in a priest, singing of Messianic deliverance, paternal feeling takes a subordinate place. He introduces the position of his son only as relates to the coming of the Messiah.

For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord. Comp. Luke 1:17. ‘The Lord' may refer to God, rather than to the Messiah. But in any case the glory of Jehovah was to appear in the advent of the Messiah, who was Himself ‘the Lord.'

To prepare his ways. Comp. on Matthew 3:3.