Luke 1:74 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Luke 1:74

72 ^aTo perform the mercy promised to our fathers
And to remember His holy covenant,

73 ^aThe oath which He swore to our father Abraham:

74 To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might ^aserve Him without fear,

75 ^aIn holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

76 “And you, child, will be called the ^aprophet of the Highest;
For ^byou will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

77 To give ^aknowledge of salvation to His people
By the remission of their sins,

78 Through the tender mercy of our God,
With which the¹ Dayspring from on high has visited us;

79 ^aTo give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,
To ^bguide our feet into the way of peace.”

80 So ^athe child grew and became strong in spirit, and ^bwas in the deserts till the day of his manifestation to Israel.

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That he would grant us, etc.—How comprehensive is the view here given! (1) The purpose of all redemption—"that we should serve Him"—that is, "the Lord God of Israel" (Luke 1:68). The word signifies religious service distinctively—"the priesthood of the New Testament" [BENGEL]. (2) The nature of this service—"in holiness and righteousness before Him" (Luke 1:75) —or, as in His presence (compare Psalms 56:13). (3) Its freedom—"being delivered out of the hand of our enemies." (4) Its fearlessness—"might serve Him without fear." (5) Its duration—"all the days of our life."

Luke 1:68-79

There is not a word in this noble burst of divine song about his own child; like Elisabeth losing sight entirely of self, in the glory of a Greater than both.

Lord God of Israel—the ancient covenant God of the peculiar people.

visited and redeemed—that is, in order to redeem: returned after long absence, and broken His long silence (see Matthew 15:31). In the Old Testament, God is said to "visit" chiefly for judgment, in the New Testament for mercy. Zacharias would, as yet, have but imperfect views of such "visiting and redeeming," "saving from and delivering out of the hand of enemies" (Luke 1:71, Luke 1:74). But this Old Testament phraseology, used at first with a lower reference, is, when viewed in the light of a loftier and more comprehensive kingdom of God, equally adapted to express the most spiritual conceptions of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

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