2 Samuel 23:1-5; Acts 4:10-12; Genesis 49:18; Isaiah 49:6; Luke 2:10; Luke 2:11; Luke 3:6
Thy salvation - Him who is to procure salvation for his people; or, the Saviour.
For (n) mine eyes have seen thy (o) salvation, (n) That is, for I have seen with my very eyes: for he saw before in mind, as it is said of Abraham,...
Simeon. As the family enters the Temple they are met by Simeon, an aged man whose devout life and expectation of Messiah had been rewarded by a Div...
Thy salvation . Greek. to soterion (not the usual soteria). Used of Jehovah Himself (not merely of salvation as such). See Isaiah 62:11 . Compa...
30. For my eyes have seen This mode of expression is very common in Scripture; but Simeon appears to denote expressly the bodily appearance...
DISCOURSE: 1477 TESTIMONY BORNE TO JESUS IN THE TEMPLE Luke 2:28-32 . Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lett...
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Thy salvation - That Savior which it became the goodness of God to bestow upon man, and which the necessities...
Mine eyes have seen, &c.— Simeon, being well acquainted with the prophetic writings, knew from them that the Messiah was to be the Author of a...
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, For mine eyes have seen thy salvation. How many saw this Child, nay the full-grown "Man, Christ Jesus,...
Birth and Childhood of Jesus 1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in connexion with St. Luke's mention of the censu...
The Purification and Presentation in the Temple. Women after childbirth were unclean, for a boy forty days, for a girl eighty days. They were then...
Thy salvation ] is practically personal, meaning the Messiah.
Mine eyes have seen thy salvation. — The Greek word is not the usual feminine noun expressing the abstract idea of salvation, but the neuter of the...
the Aged Simeon's Prophetic Blessing Luke 2:25-39 Two aged watchers welcomed the King; but no one else, of all the crowds who went and came, gu...
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover, by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless crowd. Thi...
(25) And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon: and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: an...
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation ,.... The Messiah, who is often so called; see Genesis 49:18 . He goes by the name of "salvation", because th...
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Ver. 30. For mine eyes have seen, &c. ] A great satisfaction. So it was to Job, Job 42:5 , when he cou...
Behold there was a man , &c. There was now in Jerusalem one Simeon, venerable on account of his age, piety, and virtue. For, he was just and de...
THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-7) God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events of man's government to accomplish His...
Christ and Simeon in the Temple; Anna in the Temple. 25 And, behold, there was a...
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Jesus Is Circumcised and Presented at the Temple and Is Blessed By Simon Who Prophesies Over Him (2:21-35). The purification of Mary and Jesus fro...
“Now let your servant depart, Lord, According to your word, in peace, For my eyes have seen your salvation, Which you have prepared before the fac...
CRITICAL NOTES Luke 2:21 . The child .—The best MSS. read “Him.” Luke 2:22 . Her purification .—The true reading is, “ their purification” (...
salvation ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 1:16 ).
Luke 2:29-30 The Glory and Work of Old Age. What were the gains which blessed this old man's age? I. The first was prophetic power; not so much...
Luke 2:1-9 . And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this ta...
Luke 2:21 . And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel bef...
Luke 2:1 . It came to pass in those days, when John was born, and when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in the thirty...
Whose name was Simeon Readiness for God’s will “Some years ago,” says a lady, “I made the acquaintance of an old peasant in a little German vil...
EXPOSITION Luke 2:1-42 The Redeemer's birth . Luke 2:1 There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be...
The coming of Simeon:
for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation,
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...
Thy salvation — Thy Christ, thy Saviour.
30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,