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As he spake to our fathers ... - That is, He has dealt mercifully with the children of Israel, according as He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob...
As he (c) spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. (c) Promised.
Mary Visits Elisabeth. The Magnificat. The passage links the two preceding incidents, and serves to show the inferiority of John the forerunner, to...
As . according as. our fathers. Compare Micah 7:20 ; Galatians 1:3 ; Galatians 1:16 ; Acts 2:39 . for ever . unto the age. See App-151. a....
55. To Abraham and to his seed If you read these words in close connection with the close of the former verse, there appears to be an improp...
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
He hath holpen— 'Αντελαβετο, here translated He hath holpen, signifies properly "supporting a thing that is falling, by taking hold of it on the...
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. (As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham) - These words should be read as a...
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. Luk...
Mary's visit to Elisabeth. The Magnificat. This beautiful narrative must be derived from Mary herself, probably directly. It is told as vividly and...
The Magnificat. This glorious song of praise, which has been used in the services of the Church from early times, tells us more than anything else...
Cp. Micah 7:20 . The national feeling is pronounced. The Gentiles are not mentioned, except indirectly in the allusion to the promise to Abraham. Th...
As he spake to our fathers. — As the sentence stands in English, the words “Abraham and his seed” seem in apposition with “forefathers,” and to be...
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 th...
(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...
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...
As he spake to our fathers ,.... To David, of whose family Mary was; and to Jacob, or Israel, of whose stock she was; and to Isaac, in whom the seed...
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. Ver. 55. As he spake to our fathers ] Who lived upon reversions, and died upon...
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 the...
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 thi...
The Interview of Mary and Elisabeth; The Song of Mary. 39 And Mary arose in those...
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 be...
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 d...
Luke 1:26-27 . And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man who...
Luke 1:39-41 . And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; and entered into the house of Zacharia...
Luke 1:46-47 . And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. The burden of Mary's Magnificat is v...
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 be...
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 a...
EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever b...
The hymn of Mary:
as He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever.
Galatians 3:16 ; Galatians 3:17 ; Genesis 12:3 ; Genesis 17:19 ; Genesis 22:18 ; Genesis 26:4 ; Genesis 28:14 ; Psalms 105:6-10 ; Psalms 132...
The Seven Magnificats Selections from Luke 1:1-80 and Luke 2:1-52 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, w...
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...
To his seed — His spiritual seed: all true believers.
55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.