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LUKE 1. 61-69.

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ἐν τῇ συγγενείᾳ σου, ὃς καλεῖται τῷ ὀνό- | cloud, and spake unto him, and took ματι τούτῳ.

And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

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̓Ανεώχθη δὲ τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ παραχρή μα, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐλάλει εὐλογῶν τὸν Θεόν.

And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.

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of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease, Numb. xi. 25. The Spirit of the Lonp spake by me, and his word was in my tongue, 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, Joel ii. 28. For the prophecy came but holy men of God spake as they not in old time by the will of man : were moved by the Holy Ghost, 2 Pet. i. 21.

VER. 68.

Εὐλογητὸς Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ· ὅτι ἐπεσκέψατο, καὶ ἐποίησε λύτρωσιν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ·

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and bredeemed his people,

a And there came a fear on all:

and they glorifed God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us ; and, That God hath visited his people, Luke vii. 16. And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation, xix. 44. He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever ; holy and reverend is his name, Psal. cxi. 9.

b See on Matt. i. ver. 21. clause 2.

VER. 69. Καὶ ἤγειρε κέρας σωτηρίας ἡμῖν, ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Δαβὶδ τοῦ παιδὸς αὑτοῦ·

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And hath raised up aan horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

a The LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength his Anointed, 1 Sam. ii. 10. And he unto his King, and exalt the horn of said, The LonD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Saviour; thou savest me from vio

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lence, 2 Sam. xxii. 2, 3. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower, Psal. xviii. 2. There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained alamp for mine anointed, cxxxii. 17.

b See on Matt. i. ver. 1. clause 2.

VER. 70.

Καθὼς ἐλάλησε διὰ στόματος τῶν ἁγίων τῶν ἀπ' αἰῶνος προφητῶν αὐτοῦ·

As the spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

a The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue, 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy.

footstool, Mark xii. 36. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word; Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our Fathers, Acts xxviii. 25. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Heb. iii. 7. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, 2 Pet. i. 21.

VER. 71.

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and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places, Deut. xxxiii. 25-29. For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the

LORD for servants and handmaids : and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were: and they shall rule over their oppressors. And it shall come to pass, in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, Isa. xiv. 1-3. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute, judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, Jer. xxiii. 5, 6. Behold, I will gather them out of all countries whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them

Σωτηρίαν ἐξ ἐχθρῶν ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐκ χειρὸς τὸ dwell safely: And they shall be πάντων τῶν μισούντων ἡμᾶς·

aThat we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that

hate us;

my people, and I will be their God, xxxii. 37, 38. Thus saith the LORD God, When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall aThy shoes shall be iron and brass; be sanctified in them in the sight of and as thy days, so shall thy strength the heathen, then shall they dwell in be. There is none like unto the God their land that I have given to my of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the hea- servant Jacob. And they shall dwell ven in thy help, and in his excellency safely therein, and shall build houses, on the sky. The eternal God is thy and plant vineyards; yea, they shall refuge, and underneath are the ever- dwell with confidence, when I have lasting arms: and he shall thrust out executed judgments upon all those the enemy from before thee; and shall that despise them round about them; say, Destroy them. Israel then shall and they shall know that I am the dwell in safety alone: the fountain of LORD their GOD, Ezek. xxviii. 25, 26. Jacob shall be upon a land of corn And I will make with them a coveand wine; also his heavens shall drop nant of peace, and will cause the evil down dew. Happy art thou, O Israel: beasts to cease out of the land: and who is like unto thee, O people saved they shall dwell safely in the wilderby the LORD, the shield of thy help,ness, and sleep in the woods, xxxiv.

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25. And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid, 28. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them,

Xxxviii. 8. See also on ver. 54.

VER. 72. Ποιῆσαι ἔλεος μετὰ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, καὶ μνησθῆναι διαθήκης ἁγίας αὐτοῦ·

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bAs for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram; but thy name shall be Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made thee. And I will make thee exceed ing fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, Gen. xvii. 49. He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, Psal. cv. 8. He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant, cxi. 5. Nevertheless, I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant, Ezek. xvi. 60.

VER. 73.

Ορκον εν ὤμοσε πρὸς ̓Αβραὰμ τὸν πα τέρα ἡμῶν, τοῦ δοῦναι ἡμῖν,

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a The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

"And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD; for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, Gen. xxii. 16. For men verily swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of prosel, confirmed it by an oath, Heb. vi. mise the immutability of his coun

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VER: 74.

Αφόβως, ἐκ χειρὸς τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἡμῶν ῥυσθέντας, λατρεύειν αὐτῷ,

That he would grant unto us, a that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

a The wilderness, and the solitary desert shall rejoice, and blossom as place, shall be glad for them; and the the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given Sharon; they shall see the glory of unto it, the excellency of Carmel and God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, the LORD, and the excellency of our and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be will come with vengeance, even God strong, fear not; behold, your God with a recompence; he will come and shall be opened, and the ears of the save you. Then the eyes of the blind deaf shall be unstopped: Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, in the habitation of dragons, where and the thirsty land springs of water: each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes. And an highway shall called, The way of holiness; the unbe there, and a way, and it shall be clean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there but the redeemed

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shall walk there. And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away, Isa. XXXV. But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end, xlv. 17. O thou afflicted, tossed with the tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundation with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear; and from terror; for it shall not come near thee, liv. 1114. For, behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble: for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear: the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor

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destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD, Ixv. 17-25. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GoD, Ezek. xxxiv. 12–15. And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, the King cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an

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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle-bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen; and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth, Zech. ix. 8-10.

VER. 75.

Ἐν ὁσιότητι καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ ἐνώπιον αὐ τοῦ, πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς ἡμῶν.

In holiness and righteousness before, him, all the days of our life.

a But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the great

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est of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more, Jer. xxxi. 33, 34. And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me, xxxii. 39, 40. And I will sanctify my great name which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the com, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you, Ezek. xxxvi. 23. 29. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins, Matt. i. 21. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love, Eph. i. 4. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them, ii. 10. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, iv. 24. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness, 1 Thess. iv. 7. But we are bound to give thanks alway to

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God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth, 2 Thess. ii. 13. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, 2 Tim. i. 9. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works, Tit. ii. 14. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy, 1 Pet. i. 15, 16. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2Pet. i. 4-8. See also on Matt. v. ver. 8. clause 1.

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