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30 For my eyes ahave seen Your salvation 
31 Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples,
32 aA light to bring revelation to the Gentiles,
And the glory of Your people Israel.”  
33 1And Joseph and His mother marveled at those things which were spoken of Him.  
34 Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is destined for the afall and rising of many in Israel, and for ba sign which will be spoken against  
35 (yes, aa sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”  

Anna Bears Witness to the Redeemer

36 Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of aAsher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;  
37 and this woman was a widow1 of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers anight and day.  
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Luke 2:32

Revelation to the Gentiles (apokaluyin eqnwn). Objective genitive. The Messiah is to be light (fwv) for the Gentiles in darkness (Luke 1:70) and glory (doca) for Israel (cf. Romans 9:1-5; Isaiah 49:6). The word eqnov originally meant just a crowd or company, then a race or nation, then the nations other than Israel (the people, o laov) or the people of God. The word Gentile is Latin from gens, a tribe or nation. But the world-wide mission of the Messiah comes out clearly in these early chapters in Luke.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 2:32:

Luke 1:13
Acts 13:47
Acts 26:23
3 John 1:7
Revelation 1:1

 

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