72To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
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For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, …
Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 67-80)We have here the song wherewith Zacharias praised God when his mouth was opened ; in it he is said to prophesy (Luke 1:67), and so he did in the strictest sense of prophesying ; for he foretold things to come concerning the kingdom of the Messiah, to which all the prophets bear witness. Observe, I. How he was qualified for this: He was filled with the Holy Ghost , was endued with more than ordinar…
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