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Selected Verse: Luke 2:30 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Lu 2:30 |
King James |
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
seen thy salvation--Many saw this child, nay, the full-grown "man, Christ Jesus," who never saw in Him "God's Salvation." This estimate of an object of sight, an unconscious, helpless babe, was pure faith. He "beheld His glory" (Joh 1:14). In another view it was prior faith rewarded by present sight. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Thy salvation - Him who is to procure salvation for his people; or, the Saviour. |
The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
salvation
(See Scofield) - (Rom 1:16). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Thy salvation - Thy Christ, thy Saviour. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Thy salvation - That Savior which it became the goodness of God to bestow upon man, and which the necessities of the human race required. Christ is called our salvation, as he is called our life, our peace, our hope; i.e. he is the author of all these, to them who believe. |
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.