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In holiness ... - In piety and strict justice. Before him - In the presence of God. Performed as in his presence, and with the full conscious...
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 cir...
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 decl...
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...
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 g...
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 r...
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...
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...
Birth and childhood of the Baptist. The Benedictus. 59. The eighth day ] Circumcision took place on the eighth day, even though it was the sabbath:...
In holiness and righteousness. — The same combination is found, though in an inverted order, in Ephesians 4:24 . “Holiness” has special reference...
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 r...
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...
(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...
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 holi...
In holiness and righteousness ,...., Not in mere outward rites and legal ceremonies but as the saints serve, from principles of righteousness and tr...
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 o...
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...
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 Song of Zacharias. 67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 1:58 . Cousins .—Rather, “kinsfolk,” which was the original meaning of “cousins.” How the Lord .—Rather, “that the Lord” (R...
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...
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;...
And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost The song of Zacharias I. Preliminary questions. In the opening portion of St. Luke’s G...
Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should he delivered The nativity of John the Baptist That which was miraculous at the beginning became...
EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever b...
A hymn of praise:
in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life. We have here another wonderful hymn of praise and prophecy couched, for the mo...
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 ; Ephesi...
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...
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...
75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.