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Luke iii. 3. John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, Mark i. 4. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world, John i. 7-9. John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease. He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand, John iii. 27-35. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, That they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus, Acts xix. 4. b See on Matt. vi. ver. 12. clause 1.

VER. 78.

Διὰ σπλάγχνα ἐλέους Θεοῦ ἡμῶν, ἐν οἷς ἐπεσκέψατο ἡμᾶς ἀνατολὴ ἐξ ὕψους,

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the + dayspring from on high hath visited us,

*Or, bowels of the mercy. +Or, sunrising, or, branch.

a For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, John iii. 16. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead

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in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) Eph. ii. 4, 5. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not

that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins, 1 John iv. 9, 10.

b Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies, and thy loving-kindnesses; for they have been ever of old, Psal. xxv. 6. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? Isa. Ixiii. 15.

For God is my record, how greatly 1 long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ, Phil. i. 8. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, ii. 1. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, Col. iii. 12. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 1 John iii. 17.

c And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots, Isa. xi. 1.

Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at; for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, The BRANCH, Zech. iii. 8. Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD, vi. 12. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall, Mal. iv. 2. Î Jesus-am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star, Rev. xxii. 16.

VER. 79.

Επιφᾶναι τοῖς ἐν σκότει καὶ σκιᾷ θα

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LUKE 1. 79, 80.-11. 1.

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νάτου καθημένοις, τοῦ κατευθύναι τοὺς | ask for the old paths, where is the πόδας ἡμῶν εἰς ὁδὸν εἰρήνης.

a To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, b to guide our feet into the way of peace.

a See on Matt. iv. ver. 16. Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies, Psal. xxv. 8-10. What man is he that feareth the LoRD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose: His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth, 12, 13. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good: and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set us in the way of his steps, lxxxv. 10-13. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, Prov. iii. 17. I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment; that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures, viii. 20, 21. Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea, Isa. xlviii. 17, 18. I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked, lvii. 19-21. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace, lix. 8. Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways and see, and

good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein, Jer. vi. 16. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light, Matt. xi. 28-30.

VER. 80.

Τὸ δὲ παιδίον Αυξανε καὶ ἐκραταιοῦτο πνεύματι· καὶ ἦν ἐν ταῖς ἐρήμοις ἕως ἡμέ ρας ἀναδείξεως αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν Ἰσραήλ.

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in a the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

a And, as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes conthe wilderness to see? a reed shaken cerning John, What went ye out into with the wind? Matt. xi. 7.

CHAP. II. VER. 1.

Εγένετο δὲ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις, ἐξῆλθε δόγμα παρὰ Καίσαρος Αὐγούστου, απογράφεσθαι πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην.

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that ball the world should be * taxed.

*Or, enrolled.

a Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, Luke iii. 1.

bDestruction upon destruction is cried: for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment, Jer. iv. 20. And there stood up one of them, named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar, Acts xi. 28. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world, Rom. i. 8. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed

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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, bunto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David :)

a 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 whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary, Luke i. 26, 27.

b And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill thine horn with oil, and go; I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons, 1 Sam. xvi. 1. Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse, xvii. 12. Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? John vii. 42.

VER. 5.

̓Απογράψασθαι σὺν Μαριὰμ τῇ μεμνηστευμένῃ αὐτῷ γυναικὶ, οὔσῃ ἐγκύῳ. To be tared with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

a See on Matt. i. ver. 18. clause 1.

VER. 6. Εγένετο δὲ ἐν τῷ εἶναι αὐτοὺς ἐκεῖ, ἐπλήσθησαν αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ τεκεῖν αὐτήν.

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a And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

a But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to

be have been from of old, from everlasting, Mic. v. 2.

ruler in Israel; whose goings forth

VER. 7.

Καὶ ἔτεκε τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς τὸν πρωτότο καν, καὶ ἐσπαργάνωσεν αὐτὸν, καὶ ἀνέκλινεν αὐτὸν ἐν τη φάτνη, διότι οὐκ ἦν αὐτοῖς τόπος ἐν τῷ καταλύματι.

son,

And she brought forth her first-born band wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; be cause there was no room for them in the

inn.

a Therefore the LORD himself shall

give you a sign: Behold, a virgin. shall conceive, and bear a son, and vii. 14. And knew her not till she shall call his name Immanuel, Isa. and he called his name JESUS, Matt. had brought forth her first-born son:

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Καὶ ποιμένες ἦσαν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ τῇ αὐτῇ ἀγραυλοῦντες, καὶ φυλάσσοντες φυλακὰς τῆς νυκτὸς ἐπὶ τὴν ποίμνην αὑτῶν.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night. * Or, the night-watches. VER. 9.

Καὶ ἰδοὺ, ἄγγελος Κυρίου ἐπέστη αὐτοῖς, καὶ δόξα Κυρίου περιέλαμψεν αὐτούς· καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν φόβον μέγαν.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid.

a See on Matt. xviii. ver. 10. clause 2.

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VER. 10.

LUKE II. 10, 11.

Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ ἄγγελος· Μὴ φοΕεῖσθε· ἰδοὺ γὰς, εὐαγγελίζομαι ὑμῖν χαρὰν μεγάλην, ἥτις ἔσταὶ παντὶ τῷ λαῷ·

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, b which shall be to all people.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Isa. lii. 7. and Rom. x. 15. The Spirit of the Lord GoD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, Ixi. 1. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, Acts xiii. 32.

b See on Matt. viii. ver. 11. clause 1.

VER. 11.

Ὅτι ἐτέχθη ὑμῖν σήμερον σωτήρ, ός ἐστι Χριστὸς Κύριος, ἐν πόλει Δαβίδ.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is, b Christ the Lord.

a See on Matt. i. ver. 21. clause 3. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel, Gen. iii. 15. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be, xlix. 10. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Psal. ii. 2. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. Know, therefore, and understand, that from

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the going forth of the commandment unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be to restore and to build Jerusalem, seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for

himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined, Dan. ix. 24-26. And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ, Matt. i. 16. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God, xvi. 16. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, The Christ, John i. 41. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name, xx. 31. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ, Acts ii. 36. Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ, xvii. 3. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him that is begotten of him, 1 John v. 1.

c And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me, Luke i. 43. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways, 76. And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him, xix. 31. And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore calleth him Lord; how is he then his son? xx. 42-44. The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ; (he is Lord of all ;) Acts x. 36. Which none of the princes of

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LUKE II. 11-14.

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this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory, 1 Cor. ii. 8. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven, xv. 47. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake, 2 Cor. iv. 5. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father, Phil. ii. 11. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, Phil. iii. 8. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him, Col. ii. 6. My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of per- | púv, év åvôpúños evdonía. sons, James ii. 1. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS, Rev. xix. 16. See also on Matt. iii. ver. 3.

xxii. 19. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the LORD is among them as in Sinai, in the holy place, Psal. Ixviii. 17. Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts, cxlviii. 2. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened, Dan. vii. 10. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, Rev. v. 11.

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And suddenly there was with the angela a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

a And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and, behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it, Gen. xxviii. 12. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host and he called the name of that place Mahanaim, xxxii. 1, 2. And

he said, Hear thou, therefore, the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him, on his right hand and on his left, 1 Kings

VER. 14.

Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις Θεῷ, καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς εἰ

a Glory to God in the highest, band on earth peace, good will toward men.

a Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest Luke xix. 38. Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, Ο earth; and break forth into singing. Ο mountains ; for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted, which is in heaven, and on the earth, Isa. xlix. 13. And every creature and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, and glory, and power, be unto him heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, that sitteth upon the throne, and unto

the Lamb for ever and ever, Rev. v. 13.

b For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. Isa. ix. 6,7. I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him, lvii. 19.

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