Luke 1:71

That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

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Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
saved	σωτηρίαν sōtērian	G4991	rescue or safety (physically or morally) · noun — accusative singular feminine
from	ἐξ ex	G1537	literal or figurative · preposition
our	ἡμῶν hēmōn	G2257	of (or from) us
enemies	ἐχθρῶν echthrōn	G2190	hateful (passively · noun — genitive plural masculine
and	καὶ kai	G2532	and · conjunction
from	ἐκ ek	G1537	literal or figurative · preposition
hand	χειρὸς cheiros	G5495	the hand (literally or figuratively (power) · noun — genitive singular feminine
all	πάντων pantōn	G3956	all · adjective — genitive plural masculine
hate	μισούντων misountōn	G3404	to detest (especially to persecute) · verb — present active participle, genitive plural masculine
us	ἡμᾶς hēmâs	G2248	us

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Cross-references

Psalms 106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Deuteronomy 33:29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency!…
Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS…
Zephaniah 3:15-20 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt…
Jeremiah 32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will br…
Ezekiel 34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shal…
Isaiah 14:1-3 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with th…
Isaiah 54:7-17 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:67–end

We have here the song wherewith Zacharias praised God when his mouth was opened; in it he is said to prophesy (Luk 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 ordinary measures and degrees of it, for this purpose; he was divinely inspired. God not only forgave him his unbelief and distrust (which was signified by discharging him from the punishment of it), but, as a specimen of the abounding of grace towards believers, he filled him with the Holy Ghost, and put this…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 1:70

since the world began--or, "from the earliest period."

Adam Clarke on Luke 1:71

That we should be saved (literally, a salvation) from our enemies - As Zacharias spoke by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the salvation which he mentions here must necessarily be understood in a spiritual sense. Satan, death, and sin are the enemies from whom Jesus came to deliver us. Sin is the most dangerous of all, and is properly the only enemy we have to fear. Satan is without us, and can have no power over us, but what he gets through sin. Death is only in our flesh, and shall be finally destroyed (as it affects us) on the morning of the resurrection. Jesus redeems from sin; this is the grand, the glorious, the important victory. Let us get sin cast out, and then we need, fear neit…

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John Gill on Luke 1:71

That we should be saved from our enemies,.... This, and the two following verses, either contain and express the sum and substance of what God spake by the prophets; or point out the end or ends of his raising up an horn of salvation, or a Saviour for his people; namely, that they should be saved by him from their enemies: from sin, which wars against the soul, and threatens the destruction of it; from Satan, the avowed and implacable adversary of mankind; from the world, the seed of the serpent, which has always bore an enmity to the seed of the woman; from the law, the killing letter; and from death, the last enemy that is to be destroyed, and from the hand of all that hate us: which is o…

The Church Fathers

Let us not suppose that this refers to our bodily enemies, but our ghostly. For the Lord Jesus came mighty in battle (Ps. 24:8) to destroy all our enemies, that He might deliver us from their snares and temptation.
— Origen of Alexandria ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

"Salvation from our enemies". Let us not now suppose that this is said of bodily enemies, but of spiritual ones. For the Lord Jesus came, "mighty in battle", to destroy all our enemies, that he might free us from their snares: from the hand of all our enemies "and from the hand of all who hate us".
— Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 10

Having first briefly said, He hath raised up a horn of salvation to us, he goes on to explain his words, adding, of salvation from our enemies. As if he said, He hath raised up to us a horn, i. e. He hath raised up to us salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us.
— Bede ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Covenant — A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a…
John the Baptist — The “forerunner of our Lord.” We have but fragmentary and imperfect accounts of him in the Gospels. He was of priestly descent. His father, Zacharias, was a priest of the course of Abia (1 Chr.…
Songs — Of Moses (Ex. 15; Num. 21:17; Deut. 32; Rev. 15:3), Deborah (Judg. 5), Hannah (1 Sam. 2), David (2 Sam. 22, and Psalms), Mary (Luke 1:46-55), Zacharias (Luke 1:68-79), the angels (Luke 2:13), Simeon…
Covenant, The · Fulfilled in Christ — Fulfilled in Christ
Poetry · .Of Zacharias — .Of Zacharias
Promises Of God, The · Are: Fulfilled in Christ — Are: Fulfilled in Christ
Psalms · Zacharias — Zacharias
Salvation · Is deliverance from: Enemies — Is deliverance from: Enemies

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Luke 1:71

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:67–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 1:70

Adam Clarke on Luke 1:71

John Gill on Luke 1:71

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Luke 1:71

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:67–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 1:70

Adam Clarke on Luke 1:71

John Gill on Luke 1:71

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Luke 1:67-75

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Luke 1:71