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01750
 # Lu 1:1
  SUMMARY OF LUKE 1
  \\The Birth of John\\

  Preface
  The Announcement to Mary
  The Visit of Mary to Elisabeth
  The Prophecies of Mary and Elisabeth
  The Birth of John
  The Prophecy of Zacharias
  The Child in the Deserts

    \\Forasmuch as many.\\ Verse 1-4 are an introduction. They
 explain that already many narratives of Christ had been written,
 that these were by eye witnesses and ministers of the word, that
 Luke had made a careful examination of all these sources of
 information, and thought it good, "having traced all things
 accurately from the first, to write them out in order." We thus
 learn that at least as early as twenty-seven years after the
 death of Christ (see Introduction to Luke) many histories of eye
 witnesses and ministers had already written, of which only two,
 Matthew and Mark, have come down to us.
 (PNT 222)

 See topic Johnson's Introduction to Luke                    9154
01752
 # Lu 1:3
    \\Most excellent Theophilus.\\ The name means "A lover of
 God." He is named in Acts, but of him nothing more is known.
 # Ac 1:1
 (PNT 222)
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 # Lu 1:5
    \\There was in the days of Herod.\\ For Herod,
    see note on "Mt 2:1"
    \\Course of Abia.\\ All the priests were divided into
 twenty-four courses, or classes. That of Abijah was the eighth
 course;
 # 1Ch 24:10
 each course took charge of the temple worship in succession, for
 a week at the time, beginning on a Sabbath. The heads of these
 twenty-four courses are "the chief priests" so often spoken of
 in the NT.
    \\His wife [was] of the daughters of Aaron.\\ Elizabeth also
 was of priestly family.
 (PNT 222)
01755
 # Lu 1:6
    \\They were both righteous.\\ Almost invariably great men of
 God are born of parents eminently pious. Augustine, Luther,
 Wesley, and Campbell are examples.
 (PNT 222)
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 # Lu 1:8
    \\While he executed the priest's office.\\ His course came on
 duty once in twenty-four weeks, and then he repaired to
 Jerusalem to remain his week.
 (PNT 223)
01758
 # Lu 1:9
    \\His lot.\\ In the service of the sanctuary nothing was left
 to accident or to human arrangement. The \\lot\\ determined who
 was to perform each separate portion of the sacred service, and
 especially who was each morning and evening to burn incense
 before the Lord.
    \\To burn incense.\\ Burned on the altar of incense in the
 Holy Place morning and evening. To burn the incense was an
 office held so honourable that no one was allowed to perform it
 twice, since it brought the offering priest nearer the divine
 presence in the Holy of Holies than any other priestly act, and
 carried with it the richest blessing from on high, which all
 ought to have a chance of thus obtaining.
 (PNT 223)
01759
 # Lu 1:10
    \\Praying outside.\\ The incense itself was a symbol of
 prayer,
 # Ps 141:2 Re 5:8
 and when offered by the priest a bell was rung as a signal to
 the people in the courts without, who all engaged in prayer in
 deep silence.
 (PNT 223)
01760
 # Lu 1:11
    \\An angel.\\ His name was Gabriel.
 # 1:19
 This is the first messenger of the New Dispensation.
    \\The altar of incense.\\ It was of cedar, overlaid with gold
 # 1Ki 6:20 1Ch 28:18
 was a cubit (about two feet) in length and breadth, and two
 cubits high; it stood in the Holy Place before the veil which
 separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies.
 (PNT 223)
01762
 # Lu 1:13
    \\Fear not.\\ This first celestial message at the dawning of
 the NT dispensation is one of cheer.
    \\Thy prayer is heard.\\ The childless old priest had prayed
 for offspring.
    \\Shalt call his name John.\\ That is, "the God-given."
 (PNT 223)
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 # Lu 1:15
    \\Shall drink neither wine nor strong drink.\\ No kind of
 intoxicant. Like the Nazarites.
 # Nu 6:1-21
 (PNT 223)
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 # Lu 1:17
    \\In the spirit and power of Elijah.\\ The likeness of John
 the Baptist to Elijah strikes us not only in his outward
 appearance, his clothing and way of living, but in his spirit
 and character as a preacher of repentance.
    \\Turn the hearts of the fathers.\\ These are the last words
 of the OT, there uttered by a prophet, here expounded by an
 angel; there concluding the law, and here beginning the gospel.
 # Mal 4:5
    \\To make ready a people prepared for the Lord.\\ This was
 his mission, but it was only partially successful. The common
 people, who heard him gladly, received with gladness the
 Messiah; the scribes and Pharisees, who rejected the forerunner,
 rejected also the King.
 (PNT 223-224)
01767
 # Lu 1:18
    \\By what shall I know this?\\ He wanted a sign.
 (PNT 224)
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 # Lu 1:19
    \\I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of God.\\ The word
 of such a messenger was sign enough. He is named also in
 # Da 8:15-18
 Seven angels "stand before God."
 # Re 8:2
 (PNT 224)
01769
 # Lu 1:20
    \\Thou shalt be dumb.\\ His power of speech taken away shall
 be a sign.
 (PNT 224)
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 # Lu 1:21
    \\The people waited for Zacharias.\\ Those who were praying
 without waited until the incense offering priest came out and
 dismissed them with a benediction.
 (PNT 224)
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 # Lu 1:23
    \\To his own house.\\ To his own city and home.
 (PNT 224)
01773
 # Lu 1:24
    \\Hid herself.\\ Did not go into society, both from delicacy
 and that she might have more time for devotion.
 (PNT 224)
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 # Lu 1:25
    \\Take away my reproach.\\ To be childless was regarded a
 great calamity in Israel. Compare
 # Ge 16:1-3 30:1
 (PNT 224)
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 # Lu 1:26
    \\Was sent from God to a city of Galilee.\\ Nazareth, the
 home of Mary. Matthew gives an account of this visit, but does
 not give the angel's name.
 # Mt 1:23
 (PNT 224)
01776
 # Lu 1:27
    \\To a virgin.\\ She was espoused; that is, formally engaged
 to Joseph, but not yet married. Compare with
 # Mt 1:18-25
 (PNT 225)
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 # Lu 1:30-33
    \\Fear not.\\ In the angel's message we have,
 (1) An assurance, \\Fear not.\\
 (2) A promise, \\Thou shalt bring forth a son.\\
 (3) A command, \\Thou shalt call his name JESUS.\\
 (4) A prophecy, \\He shall be great, the Son of the Highest,\\
     \\sit on David's throne, reign forever.\\
 (PNT 225)
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 # Lu 1:39
    \\Arose.\\ In consequence of the angel's words.
    \\Went into the hill country.\\ The central plateau of Judea,
 containing the cities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. Hebron
 was a Levitical city.
 # Jos 21:11
 Whether the city was Hebron, Juttah, or some other, is only
 conjecture.
 (PNT 225)
01791
 # Lu 1:42
    \\Blessed [art] thou among women.\\ The language of
 Elizabeth, Oriental poetry, is that of an inspired prophet.
 (PNT 226)
01792
 # Lu 1:43
    \\Mother of my Lord.\\ Jesus, our Lord and Saviour.
 (PNT 226)
01795
 # Lu 1:46-55
    \\Mary said.\\ Mary also is filled with the spirit of
 prophecy. These two godly women are the first human prophets of
 the NT. Mary's language is in part drawn from the Psalms. This
 hymn is divisible into three parts:
 (1) recognition of God's strange grace upon her own humble
     person and character;
     # 1:46-49
 (2) a recognition that it is ever thus that God exalts the
     humble, and brings low the proud;
     # 1:50-53
 (3) the result is that humble Israel is now to be exalted
     according to God's promise to Abraham.
     # 1:54,55
 (PNT 226)
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 # Lu 1:47
    \\My Saviour.\\ Mary, by this word, reckons herself among
 that which was lost. She obtained salvation, not from herself,
 but from Jesus.--Bengel.
 (PNT 226)
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 # Lu 1:48
    \\Call me blessed.\\ Pronounce me highly favoured, or happy in
 being the mother of the Messiah. Abraham was blessed in being
 the father of the faithful; Paul in being the apostle to the
 Gentiles; Peter in first preaching the gospel to them; but who
 would think of worshipping or praying to Abraham, Paul, or Peter?
 (PNT 226-227)