Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Luke 2:30
Thy salvation - Him who is to procure salvation for his people; or, the Saviour.
Thy salvation - Him who is to procure salvation for his people; or, the Saviour.
Verse 30. _THY SALVATION_] That _Saviour_ which it became the goodness of God to bestow upon man, and which the necessities of the human race required. Christ is called our _salvation_, as he is calle...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Birth of Christ at Bethlehem (Luke 2:1)_ 2. The Glad Tidings Announced to the Shepherds. (Luke 2:8) 3. The Circumcision and Presentation (Luke 2:21) 4. Simeon and His Prophecy ...
SIMEON. As the family enters the Temple they are met by Simeon, an aged man whose devout life and expectation of Messiah had been rewarded by a Divine intimation that he should live to see the Christ....
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
Now--look you--there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon. This man was good and pious. He was waiting for the comforting of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. He had received a message from the...
THY SALVATION. Greek. to _soterion_ (not the usual _soteria)._ Used of Jehovah Himself (not merely of salvation as such). See Isaiah 62:11. Compare Luke 3:6....
Simeon and the Nunc Dimittis 25. _a man … whose name was Simeon_ This cannot be Rabban Shimeon the son of Hillel (whom the Talmud is on this account supposed to pass over almost unnoticed), because h...
_thy salvation_ Not τὴν σωτηρίαν but τὸ σωτήριον which seems to have a wider meaning....
ΤῸ ΣΩΤΉΡΙΟΝ. This seems to have a wider meaning than τὴν σωτηρίαν....
SIMEON AND THE NUNC DIMITTIS...
VER 28. - AND BLESSED GOD, AND SAID, 29. LORD, NOW LET YOU YOUR SERVANT DEPART IN PEACE, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD: 30. FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN YOUR SALVATION, 31. WHICH YOU HAVE PREPARED BEFORE THE FACE...
ΕΊΔΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 2:20....
DISCOURSE: 1477 TESTIMONY BORNE TO JESUS IN THE TEMPLE Luke 2:28. _Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy wor...
MINE EYES HAVE SEEN, &C.— Simeon, being well acquainted with the prophetic writings, knew from them that the Messiah was to be the Author of a great salvation, which, because it was planned by God, th...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Presenting the Child to the Lord Scripture_ Luke 2:22-40 And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Prophecies (Luke 2:22-38) 22 And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23(a...
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THY SALVATION. How many saw this Child, nay the full-grown "Man, Christ Jesus," who never saw in Him "God's Salvation!" This estimate...
25 Simeon signifies to _ hear_, and is representative of those in Judah whose ears were open to the law of the Lord and who looked for the fulfillment of the prophetic promises. As the years spoken of...
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS 1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in connexion with St. Luke's mention of the census of Quirinius: (1) There is no direct evidence, exce...
THY SALVATION] is practically personal, meaning the Messiah....
THE PURIFICATION AND PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. Women after childbirth were unclean, for a boy forty days, for a girl eighty days. They were then bound to present an offering for Purification, viz. a...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 THE BIRTH OF JESUS 2:1-7 V1 At that time *Caesar Augustus ordered a *census in the *Roman *empire. V2 This was the first *census when Quirinius gov...
MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THY SALVATION. — The Greek word is not the usual feminine noun expressing the abstract idea of salvation, but the neuter of the adjective — that which brings or works out salvation...
gives the reason for this tranquil attitude towards death. τὸ σωτήριον = τὴν σωτηρίαν, often in Sept [29] [29] Septuagint....
_Nunc dimittis_....
THE AGED SIMEON'S PROPHETIC BLESSING Luke 2:25-39 Two aged watchers welcomed the King; but no one else, of all the crowds who went and came, guessed that the Messenger of the Covenant had suddenly c...
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover, by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless crowd. This was according to the divine arrangement and foret...
For (n) mine eyes have seen thy (o) salvation, (n) That is, for I have seen with my very eyes: for he saw before in mind, as it is said of Abraham, "He saw my day and rejoiced." (o) That in which yo...
_Thy salvation; i.e. the Saviour, whom thou hast sent. (Witham)_...
CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS & HIS PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE 21-24. _“And when the eight days for circumcising Him were fulfilled, and He was called Jesus, being called by the angel before he was conceived...
“ _Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word:_ 30 _For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation_, 31 _Which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people;_ 32 _A light to l...
SIXTH NARRATIVE: CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF JESUS, LUKE 2:21-40. This narrative comprises 1. The circumcision of Jesus (Luke 2:21); 2. His presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-38); 3. A histori...
(25) And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon: and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. (26) And it was reve...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
30._For my eyes have seen _This mode of expression is very common in Scripture; but Simeon appears to denote expressly the bodily appearance of Christ, as if he had said, that he now has the Son of Go...
In the next chapter (2) the scene changes. Instead of the relations of God with Israel according to grace, we see first the pagan emperor of the world the head of Daniel's last empire exercising his p...
FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THY SALVATION,.... The Messiah, who is often so called; see Genesis 49:18. He goes by the name of "salvation", because the salvation of God's elect is put into his hands, and h...
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Ver. 30. _For mine eyes have seen, &c._] A great satisfaction. So it was to Job,Job 42:5, when he could say, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, bu...
_Behold there was a man_, &c. There was now in Jerusalem one Simeon, venerable on account of his age, piety, and virtue. For, _he was just and devout_ Righteous toward his fellow-creatures, and holy t...
The coming of Simeon:...
FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THY SALVATION,...
THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-7) God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events of man's government to accomplish His own will. Caesar Augustus decreed that all the world ...
25-35 The same Spirit that provided for the support of Simeon's hope, provided for his joy. Those who would see Christ must go to his temple. Here is a confession of his faith, that this Child in his...
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Five Books in Reply to Marcion Heard with their ears Salvation,[181]...
Luke 2:30 For G3754 my G3450 eyes G3788 seen G1492 (G5627) Your G4675 salvation G4992...
“Now let your servant depart, Lord, According to your word, in peace, For my eyes have seen your salvation, Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples, A light for revelation to the Ge...
JESUS IS CIRCUMCISED AND PRESENTED AT THE TEMPLE AND IS BLESSED BY SIMON WHO PROPHESIES OVER HIM (2:21-35). The purification of Mary and Jesus from the ritual defilement of child birth was necessary d...
The fulfilment of the legal requirements respecting the child Jesus: His circumcision and naming on the eighth day (Luke 2:21), as one of the Jewish people, and the redemption from the temple service...
Luke 2:30. HAVE SEEN. These words are emphatic; probably the tradition respecting previous blindness was suggested by them. THY SALVATION, _i.e.,_ the Messianic deliverance. He sees the world's salva...
SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
Luke 2:29 The Glory and Work of Old Age. What were the gains which blessed this old man's age? I. The first was prophetic power; not so much the power of foretelling, as the power of insight into Go...
Luke 2:21. _And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb._ Although the old...
Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
CONTENTS: Birth of Jesus. His adoration by the shepherds. Adoration and prophecy of Simon and Anna. Return to Nazareth. Jesus and His parents at the Passover. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Caesar, Augustus, Cyr...
Luke 2:1. _It came to pass in those days,_ when John was born, and when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in the thirty first year of his reign, that, a decree was issued f...
_Whose name was Simeon_ READINESS FOR GOD’S WILL “Some years ago,” says a lady, “I made the acquaintance of an old peasant in a little German village, where I for some time resided. He was called Go...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:30 ALL PEOPLES. Both Israel and the Gentiles. ⇐ ⇔...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:1 Luke records the events of Jesus’ birth (vv. Luke 2:1), his presentation in the temple (vv. Luke 2:21), and his visit
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _And it came to pass in those days_ (in which John the Baptist was born) _there went forth a decree_, &c. The Syriac for "all the world," has "all the people of his dominion," subjec...
Observe here how God joins and couples in Christ the humble with the sublime, the human with the divine, the poison with the antidote, to show that in Him human nature was joined to the Divine Majesty...
_For mine eyes have seen thy salvation._ " _Salvation_," in Greek _σωτήζιον_, the word used by the Septuagint as a rendering of the Hebrew ישוצח, _iescua_, safety. "Safety" is used by metonomy for "Sa...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:21. THE CHILD.—The best MSS. read “Him.” Luke 2:22. HER PURIFICATION.—The true reading is, “_their_ purification” (R.V.). The mother was ceremonially unclean by child-birth, t...
EXPOSITION LUKE 2:1 _The Redeemer's birth_. LUKE 2:1 THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED; more accurately, _that there should be a registration_, etc.;...
Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And the taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syra.) And all we...
2 Samuel 23:1; Acts 4:10; Genesis 49:18; Isaiah 49:6; Luke 2:10;...
THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS _Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
Thy salvation — Thy Christ, thy Saviour....