“ The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, ”
The oath - This oath is recorded in Genesis 22:16-17 . It was an oath in which God swore by himself (because he could swear by no greater, Hebrews 6:13-14 ) that he would surely bless Abraham a...
The Birth of John. The Benedictas. In due course Elisabeth bore her son and received the congratulations of her friends. When the babe has been circumcised and named, his mother rejects the proposa...
The oath, &c. See Genesis 12:3 ; Genesis 17:4 ; Genesis 22:16 ; Genesis 22:17 .
73. According to the oath There is no word in the Greek original for the preposition according to: but it is a common and well understood principle of language, that when the accusative c...
DISCOURSE: 1469 THE SONG OF ZACHARIAS Luke 1:67-75 . And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and r...
The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, The oath which he sware to our father Abraham. The whole work of Messiah, and the kingdom He was to establish on the earth, are represented here...
The Benedictus. 'This song, which was composed in the priest's mind during the time of his silence, broke solemnly from his lips the moment speech was restored to him, as the metal flows from the c...
The oath. — The noun is in apposition to the “covenant” of the preceding verse, though not grammatically in the same case with it.
Chapter 2 THE MUTE PRIEST. Luke 1:5-25 ; Luke 1:57-80 . AFTER his personal prelude, our Evangelist goes on to give in detail the pre-Advent revelations, so connecting the thread of his narrat...
the Song at the Herald's Birth Luke 1:57-80 This song is second only to that of Mary. It is a noble ode, tracing our Lord's advent back to the early covenant of God with the fathers and anticip...
(67) And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, (68) Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: for he hath visited and redeemed his people, (69) And hath raised up an h...
The oath which he swore to our father Abraham. When he swore by himself, because he could swear by no greater, that in blessing he would bless him; that his seed should possess the gates of his ene...
The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, Ver. 73. The oath which he sware ] ορκος quasi ερκος, a hedge, which a man may not break; much less will God.
That we should be saved from our enemies Spiritual as well as temporal, invisible as well as visible; and from the hand of all that hate us From Satan and his angels, and all adverse power, and e...
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 Song of Zacharias. 67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 68 Blessed be the Lo...
God first gave Abraham his word, Genesis 18:10 , then he confirmed it by his oath, Genesis 22:16 . The apostle, to the Hebrews, saith, Hebrews 6:13 , When God made promise to Abraham, becau...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:58 . Cousins .—Rather, “kinsfolk,” which was the original meaning of “cousins.” How the Lord .—Rather, “that the Lord” (R.V.). Luke 1:59 . On the eighth day .—The state...
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...
The oath which He sware The purpose of God’s oath God doth not give it to make His word or promise sure and steadfast, but to give assurance and security to us of their accomplishment. Every w...
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 oath which He sware to our father Abraham
Deuteronomy 7:12 ; Deuteronomy 7:8 ; Genesis 22:16 ; Genesis 22:17 ; Genesis 24:7 ; Genesis 26:3 ; Hebrews 6:16 ; Hebrews 6:17 ; Jeremiah 11:5 ; Psalms 105:9
The Revelations of God Luke 1:5-79 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This is the Gospel that emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of Ma...