Luke 1:51 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. ”

• Luke 1:51 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hath showed strength with his arm - The “arm” is the symbol of strength. The expression in this and the subsequent verses has no particular reference to his mercy to Mary. From a contemplation of...

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• Luke 1:51 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  He hath shewed strength with his (t) arm; he hath (u) scattered the proud in the (x) imagination of their hearts. (t) Here many more words than necessary are used, which the Hebrews use very much: a...

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• Luke 1:51 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Mary Visits Elisabeth. The Magnificat. The passage links the two preceding incidents, and serves to show the inferiority of John the forerunner, to Jesus the Messiah. Mary (finding herself with chi...

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• Luke 1:51 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  with. Greek. en. App-104. His arm. Figure of speech Anthrapopatheia. App-6. Compare Isaiah 52:10 ; Isaiah 59:1 ; Isaiah 59:16 .

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• Luke 1:51 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  51. He hath done might This means, “he hath wrought powerfully.” The arm of God is contrasted with every other aid: as in Isaiah, “I looked, and there was none to help,” ( Isaiah 63:5 ;)...

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• Luke 1:51 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath showed strength - Or, He hath gained the victory, εποιησε κρατος. The word κρατος is used...

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• Luke 1:51 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He hath shewed strength, &c.— It is an observation of Grotius, that God's great power is represented by his finger; his greater, by his hand; and his greatest by his arm. The production o...

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• Luke 1:51 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things ... Verse 50. And his mercy is on them that fear him from gener...

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• Luke 1:51 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Birth of John. The Annunciation 1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true Gentile, trained in Greek c...

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• Luke 1:51 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He hath shewed strength. — Literally, He wrought strength. Here the parallelism with 1 Samuel 2:3 becomes very close. Of whom the speaker thought as among the “proud,” we cannot know. They may...

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• Luke 1:51 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Song of the Virgin Mother Luke 1:39-56 Zacharias lived in a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah. The narrative evidently implies that there had been no previous communication betwee...

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• Luke 1:51 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (39) And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; (40) And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. (41) And it came to pass, that,...

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• Luke 1:51 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord.… As He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.’ Luke 1:46-55 Next to the Lord’s Prayer, perhaps, few passages of Sc...

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• Luke 1:51 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He hath showed strength with his arm ,.... Of almighty power, in the business of the incarnation, and in working out salvation for his people; which is done by his own arm, he being mighty to save,...

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• Luke 1:51 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. Ver. 51. He hath showed strength, &c. ] It appears by the whole frame of this holy song,...

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• Luke 1:51 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He that is mighty Beyond all our conceptions, even the Almighty God, to whom this strange event is not only possible, but easy; hath done to me great things Miracles , as the words μεγαλα and μεγα...

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• Luke 1:51 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  LUKE'S GOSPEL WRITTEN FOR A GENTILE RULER (vs.1-4) Luke's introduction shows that, though he was concerned about giving exact information in this letter to Theophilus, he had not thought of bein...

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• Luke 1:51 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Interview of Mary and Elisabeth; The Song of Mary.       39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste,...

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• Luke 1:51 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 51,52. In these verses the virgin celebrates both the power and justice of God, as she before had done his holiness, and his mercy and goodness. The strength of a man is much seen in the effects...

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• Luke 1:51 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:39 . City of Judah .—The city is not named. Probably it was not Hebron, as a place so well known would most likely have been named. The conjecture that Judah is a corruptio...

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• Luke 1:51 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Luke 1:5-6 . There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And...

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• Luke 1:51 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 1:1 . Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things, which within a short compass of years have been acted and accomplished among us. In the first a...

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• Luke 1:51 - The Biblical Illustrator

  My soul doth magnify the Lord Mary’s song Mary was on a visit when she expressed her joy in the language of this noble song. It were well if all our social intercourse were as useful to our he...

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• Luke 1:51 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever be an interesting study. Here we shall never know t...

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• Luke 1:51 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The hymn of Mary:

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• Luke 1:51 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 5:5 ; 1 Samuel 2:10 ; 1 Samuel 2:3 ; 1 Samuel 2:4 ; 1 Samuel 2:9 ; 2 Corinthians 10:5 ; Daniel 4:37 ; Daniel 5:25 ; Deuteronomy 29:19 ; Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Deuteronomy 4:34 ; Exod...

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• Luke 1:51 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Seven Magnificats Selections from Luke 1:1-80 and Luke 2:1-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Chri...

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• Luke 1:51 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He hath wrought strength with his arm — That is, he hath shown the exceeding greatness of his power. She speaks prophetically of those things as already done, which God was about to do by the Messi...

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