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Selected Verse: Luke 2:10 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Lu 2:10	King James	And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
to all people--"to the whole people," that is, of Israel; to be by them afterwards opened up to the whole world. (See on Luk 2:14).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

to all people--"to the whole people," that is, of Israel; to be by them afterwards opened up to the whole world. (See on Luk 2:14).

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]
I bring you good tidings of great joy (εὐαγγελίζομαι ὑμῖν χαρὰν μεγάλην) Wyc. is strictly literal: I evangelize to you a great joy. Which (ἥτις) Of a class or character which, etc. People (τῷ λαῷ) Rev., rightly, "the people;" the article pointing specially to the people of Israel.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]

I bring you good tidings of great joy (εὐαγγελίζομαι ὑμῖν χαρὰν μεγάλην)

Wyc. is strictly literal: I evangelize to you a great joy.

Which (ἥτις)

Of a class or character which, etc.

People (τῷ λαῷ)

Rev., rightly, "the people;" the article pointing specially to the people of Israel.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Behold, I bring you good tidings - I am not come to declare the judgments of the Lord, but his merciful loving-kindness, the subject being a matter of great joy. He then declares his message. Unto you - to the Jews first, and then to the human race. Some modern MSS. with the utmost impropriety read ἡμιν, us, as if angels were included in this glorious work of redemption; but St. Paul says, he took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, i.e. the nature of Abraham and his posterity, the human nature; therefore the good news is to you, - and not to yourselves exclusively, for it is to all people, to all the inhabitants of this land, and to the inhabitants of the whole earth.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Behold, I bring you good tidings - I am not come to declare the judgments of the Lord, but his merciful loving-kindness, the subject being a matter of great joy. He then declares his message. Unto you - to the Jews first, and then to the human race. Some modern MSS. with the utmost impropriety read ἡμιν, us, as if angels were included in this glorious work of redemption; but St. Paul says, he took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, i.e. the nature of Abraham and his posterity, the human nature; therefore the good news is to you, - and not to yourselves exclusively, for it is to all people, to all the inhabitants of this land, and to the inhabitants of the whole earth.

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