Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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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