30For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
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And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. …
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-40)Even when he humbles himself, still Christ has honour done him to balance the offence of it. That we might not be stumbled at the meanness of his birth, angels then did him honour; and now, that we may not be offended at his being presented in the temple, like other children born in sin, and without any manner of solemnity peculiar to him, but silently, and in the crowd of other children, Simeon a…
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