Luke 1:71

Luke 1:71

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69 ^aAnd has raised up a horn of salvation for us
In the house of His servant David,

70 ^aAs He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets,
Who have been ^bsince the world began,

71 That we should be saved from our enemies
And from the hand of all who hate us,

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,

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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That we should be saved (literally, a salvation) from our enemies - As Zacharias spoke by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the salvation which he mentions here must necessarily be understood in a spiritual sense. Satan, death, and sin are the enemies from whom Jesus came to deliver us. Sin is the most dangerous of all, and is properly the only enemy we have to fear. Satan is without us, and can have no power over us, but what he gets through sin. Death is only in our flesh, and shall be finally destroyed (as it affects us) on the morning of the resurrection.

Jesus redeems from sin; this is the grand, the glorious, the important victory. Let us get sin cast out, and then we need, fear neither death, nor the devil.

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