Luk 1:78-79 | JFB | e4.org | 78. Through the tender mercy of our God —the sole spring, necessarily, of all salvation for sinners. dayspring from on high —either Christ Himself, as the "Sun of righteousness" ( ), arising on a dark world [BEZA , GROTIUS , CALVIN , DE WETTE , OLSHAUSEN , &c.], or the light which He sheds. The sense, of course, is one.

‏ Luke 1:78-79

78. Through the tender mercy of our God—the sole spring, necessarily, of all salvation for sinners.

dayspring from on high—either Christ Himself, as the "Sun of righteousness" (Mal 4:2), arising on a dark world [BEZA, GROTIUS, CALVIN, DE WETTE, OLSHAUSEN, &c.], or the light which He sheds. The sense, of course, is one.

79. (Compare Isa 9:2; Mt 4:13-17). "That St. Luke, of all the Evangelists, should have obtained and recorded these inspired utterances of Zacharias and Mary—is in accordance with his character and habits, as indicated in Lu 1:1-4" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON].