2To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
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Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)He that is the best expositor of scripture has no doubt given us the best exposition of these verses, even our Lord Jesus himself, who read this in the synagogue at Nazareth (perhaps it was the lesson for the day) and applied it entirely to himself, saying, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears ( Luke 4:17 , 18 , 21 ); and the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, in the ope…
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