Luke 1:52
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What does Luke 1:52 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree."
What does Luke 1:52 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree."
Verse 52. _HE HATH PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM THEIR SEATS_] Or, _He_ _hath taken down potentates from their thrones_. This probably alludes to the removal of _Saul_ from the throne of Israel, and the es...
HATH PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY - The “mighty” here denotes princes, kings, or conquerors. See Isaiah 14:12. THEIR SEATS - Their “thrones,” or the places where they sat in pomp and power. EXALTED THEM - Ra...
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 t...
MARY VISITS ELISABETH. THE MAGNIFICAT. The passage links the two preceding incidents, and serves to show the inferiority of John the forerunner, to Jesus the Messiah. Mary (finding herself with child)...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY. Amaziah (2 Kings 14:10); Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:16); Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 5:20); Belshazzar (Daniel 5:23; Daniel 5:30). SEATS. thrones. THEM OF LOW DEGREE. the lowly....
The Magnificat 46. _And Mary said_ This chapter is remarkable for preserving a record of two inspired hymns the _Magnificat_and the _Benedictus_which have been used for more than a thousand years in t...
THE MAGNIFICAT...
VER 52. HE HAS PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM THEIR SEATS, AND EXALTED THEM OF LOW DEGREE. THEOPHYL; The words, He has showed strength with his arm, and those which went before, And his mercy is on them th...
_THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS ANNOUNCED -- LUKE 1:26-56:_ A month after the announcement of John's birth God sent Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee with a message for a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to a...
ΚΑΘΕΪ́ΛΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΘΑΙΡΈΩ (G2507) низводить, ΎΨΩΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΎΨΌΩ (G5312) поднимать (_см._ Proverbs 3:34; Isaiah 2:11-12)....
HE HATH PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY, &C.— Δυναστας απο θρονων, _the rulers from their thrones._ The kings who sprung from David had, no doubt, one after another expected to be the parents of the Messiah; and...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Predictions of the Redeemer (Luke 1:26-56) 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a ma...
For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. FOR HE THAT IS MIGHTY HATH DONE TO ME GREAT THINGS ... Verse 50. AND HIS MERCY IS ON THEM THAT FEAR HIM FROM GENERATION...
18 Zacharias does not believe the glad news. Hence he is stricken dumb, for unbelief has no right to speak of the things of God. 19 Gabriel gave Daniel the explanation of two of his visions (Dan_8:16...
BIRTH OF JOHN. THE ANNUNCIATION 1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true Gentile, trained in Greek cult...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ THE AUTHOR Luke wrote two books of the *New Testament (NT). Luke’s *Gospel tells the story of the life and work of Jesus. Luke’s second book, Acts, continues...
THE MIGHTY. — The word (that from which we get our English “dynasty”) is applied to the eunuch “of great authority” under Candace, in Acts 8:27, and is used as a divine name in “the blessed and only P...
_Mary's song_. μεγαλύνει : _magnificat_, Vulg [10], whence the ecclesiastical name for this hymn, which has close affinities with the song of Hanna in 1 Samuel 2:1-10; variously regarded by critics: b...
THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER Luke 1:39-56 Zacharias lived in a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah. The narrative evidently implies that there had been no previous communication between the...
He hath (y) put down the mighty from [their] seats, and exalted them of (z) low degree. (y) The mighty and rich men. (z) Those of no account, who are vile in men's eyes, who are indeed the poor in s...
MARY'S SUBMISSION 34-38. _“And Mary said, Behold the handmaiden of the Lord: may it he unto me according to thy word.”_ Good Lord, give us the faith of Mary, that we may perfectly submit to Thy Word...
FIRST PART: THE NARRATIVES OF THE INFANCY, LUKE 1:5 TO LUKE 2:52 Both the first and the third Gospel open with a cycle of narratives relating to the birth and childhood of Jesus. These narratives do n...
(39) And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; (40) And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. (41) And it came to pass, that,...
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...
_THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN_ ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord.… As He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.’ Luke 1:46 Next to the Lord’s Prayer, perhaps, few passages of Scripture...
52._He hath cast down the nobles _This translation has been adopted, for the sake of avoiding ambiguity: for though the Greek word δυνάσται is derived from δύναμις _, power, _it denotes governors and...
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...
HE HATH PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM THEIR SEATS,.... As mighty kings and emperors from their thrones, as he often does, in the course of his providence; setting up one, and putting down another: or the m...
He hath put down the mighty from _their_ seats, and exalted them of low degree. Ver. 52. _He hath put down the mighty_] As he did Bajazet, the proud Turk, and set up Tamerlane, a Scythian shepherd; w...
_He hath put down the mighty from their seats_ The mighty think to secure themselves by might in their seats, but he puts them down and overturns their seats; while, on the other hand, those of low de...
The hymn of Mary:...
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 a...
39-56 It is very good for those who have the work of grace begun in their souls, to communicate one to another. On Mary's arrival, Elisabeth was conscious of the approach of her who was to be the mot...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV sufficiently shown that the glory of riches is condemned by our God, "who putteth down the mighty from their throne, and exalts the poor from the dunghill."[1164]...
Luke 1:52 down G2507 (G5627) mighty G1413 from G575 thrones G2362 And G2532 exalted G5312 (G5656) lowly G5011 put - Luke 18:14; 1 Samuel 2:4, 1 Samuel 2:6-8; Job 5:11-13,...
ON THE HARMONY with the account in Matthew. Views: 1. That the events recorded in Matthew 1:18-25 took place before the visit to Elisabeth. It is urged that a betrothed virgin would not be permitted t...
PRINCES (δυναστας). Our word dynasty is from this word. It comes from δυναμα, to be able....
Luke 1:5. _There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they...
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,...
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,...
MARY SAID. Mary is also filled with the Holy Spirit. These two holy women are the first human prophets of the New Testament Age. Mary speaks the language of the Psalms. In Luke 1:46-49, she praises Go...
_My soul doth magnify the Lord_ MARY’S SONG Mary was on a visit when she expressed her joy in the language of this noble song. It were well if all our social intercourse were as useful to our hearts...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:5 The Infancy Narrative. The opening (Luke 1:8) and conclusion (Luke 2:21) of this section take place in the temple (see Herod’s Temple in the Time of Jesus). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = d...
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...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 1:39. CITY OF JUDAH.—The city is not named. Probably it was not Hebron, as a place so well known would most likely have been named. The conjecture that Judah is a corruption of...
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 exac...
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...
1 Samuel 2:4; 1 Samuel 2:6; Amos 9:11; Ecclesiastes 4:14; Ezekiel 17:24; James 1:10; James 1:9; James 4:10; Job 34:24; Job 5:11;...
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 gi...
He hath put down the mighty — Both angels and men....