“ He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. ”
Hath put down the mighty - The “mighty” here denotes princes, kings, or conquerors. See Isaiah 14:12-14 . Their seats - Their “thrones,” or the places where they sat in pomp and power. Ex...
He hath (y) put down the mighty from [their] seats, and exalted them of (z) low degree. (y) The mighty and rich men. (z) Those of no account, who are vile in men's eyes, who are indeed the poor in...
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...
put down the mighty. Amaziah ( 2 Kings 14:10 ); Uzziah ( 2 Chronicles 26:16 ); Nebuchadnezzar ( Daniel 5:20 ); Belshazzar ( Daniel 5:23 ; Daniel 5:30 ). seats . thrones. them of low degree . t...
52. He hath cast down the nobles This translation has been adopted, for the sake of avoiding ambiguity: for though the Greek word δυνάσται is derived from δύναμις , power, it denotes gov...
He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath put down the mighty from their seats - Or, He hath taken down potentates from their thrones. This probably allu...
He hath put down the mighty, &c.— Δυναστας απο θρονων, the rulers from their thrones. The kings who sprung from David had, no doubt, one after another expected to be the parents of the Messia...
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...
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...
The mighty. — The word (that from which we get our English “dynasty”) is applied to the eunuch “of great authority” under Candace, in Acts 8:27 , and is used as a divine name in “the blessed and o...
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...
(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,...
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...
He hath put down the mighty from their seats ,.... As mighty kings and emperors from their thrones, as he often does, in the course of his providence; setting up one, and putting down another: or th...
He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. Ver. 52. He hath put down the mighty ] As he did Bajazet, the proud Turk, and set up Tamerlane, a Scythian shepherd...
He hath put down the mighty from their seats The mighty think to secure themselves by might in their seats, but he puts them down and overturns their seats; while, on the other hand, those of low d...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The hymn of Mary:
1 Samuel 2:4 ; 1 Samuel 2:6-8 ; Amos 9:11 ; Ecclesiastes 4:14 ; Ezekiel 17:24 ; James 1:10 ; James 1:9 ; James 4:10 ; Job 34:24-28 ; Job 5:11-13 ; Luke 18:14 ; Mark 6:3 ; Psalms 107:40 ;...
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...
He hath put down the mighty — Both angels and men.