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Luke 1:76

The Pulpit Commentary on Luke 1:76

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And thou, child; literally, little child. Here the father breaks forth into an expression of gladness at the thought of the great part his baby-son was to bear in this great national deliverance. His son, too—oh, joy undreamed of!

—is to be ranked among the glorious company of the prophets of the Highest.

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