“ In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. ”
In holiness ... - In piety and strict justice. Before him - In the presence of God. Performed as in his presence, and with the full consciousness that he sees the heart. The “holiness” was no...
In holiness and righteousness (l) before him, all the days of our life. (l) To God's good liking.
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...
holiness. Toward God. righteousness. Toward men. Compare 1 Thessalonians 2:10 ; Ephesians 4:24 .
75. In holiness and righteousness As the rule of a good life has been reduced by God to two tables, ( Exodus 31:18 ,) so Zacharias here declares, that we serve God in a proper manner, when o...
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...
In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
And the days of our life.— Serving God in holiness and righteousness, as well as deliverance from enemies, being spoken of as in the merciful grant of God, we may reasonably conclude that it re...
In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. How rich and comprehensive is the view here given of Me...
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...
In holiness and righteousness. — The same combination is found, though in an inverted order, in Ephesians 4:24 . “Holiness” has special reference to man’s relations to God; “justice” to those whic...
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...
DELIVERANCE AND SERVICE ‘That He would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of...
In holiness and righteousness ,...., Not in mere outward rites and legal ceremonies but as the saints serve, from principles of righteousness and true holiness; in which the new man is created, and...
In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. Ver. 75. Before him ] The sense of God's presence makes men conscientiously obedient to both tables of the law. Cave spectat C...
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...
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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...
All the days of our life The holy and their heavenly prospects True, all our lives long we shall be bound to refrain our soul and keep it low; but what then? For the books we now forbear to re...
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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1 Peter 1:14-16 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:1 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:7 ; 2 Peter 1:4-8 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ; 2 Timothy 1:9 ; Deuteronomy 6:2 ; Ephesians 1:4 ; Ephesians 2:10 ; Ephesians 4:24 ; Eze...
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...