Luke 7:16. And fear took hold on all . ‘Fear' was the natural result, but the word is used in the Old Testament sense. Not terror, but not yet the loving faith of the New Testament. Some superstition may have mingled with it, but it was mainly religious, for it is added: they glorified God.

A great prophet, etc. ‘That,' in this clause and the next, is probably the usual sign of quotation, though it may mean ‘because.' The two sayings express the same idea. Only the greatest prophets (Elijah and Elisha) had raised the dead, and the other saying indicates that they thought of the great prophet who was to come. Still it was not a decided avowal that Jesus was the Messiah. Notice how the effect of this miracle was an exaltation of Jesus as a Person in the minds of those who witnessed it

Hath visited. Comp. chap. Luke 1:68.

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