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# 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)
01754
# 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)
01757
# 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)
01764
# Lu 1:15
\\Shall drink neither wine nor strong drink.\\ No kind of
intoxicant. Like the Nazarites.
# Nu 6:1-21
(PNT 223)
01766
# 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)
01768
# 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)
01770
# 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)
01772
# 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)
01774
# 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)
01775
# 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)
01779
# 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)
01788
# 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)
01796
# 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)
01797
# 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)