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Selected Verse: Luke 2:26 - King James

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Lu 2:26 King James And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

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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]
revealed by the Holy Ghost--implying, beyond all doubt, the personality of the Spirit.

should see not death till he had seen--"sweet antithesis!" [BENGEL]. How would the one sight gild the gloom of the other! He was, probably, by this time, advanced in years.
 
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48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.