לוקם 2:31

Delitzsche Hebrew New Testament

אֲשֶׁר הֲכִינוֹתָ לִפְנֵי כָּל־הָעַמִּים׃

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Hebrew Modern Translation
אשר הכינות לפני כל העמים׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 96:1-3, Psalms 96:10-13, Psalms 97:6-8, Psalms 98:2, Psalms 98:3, Isaiah 42:1-4, Isaiah 42:10-12, Isaiah 45:21-25, Isaiah 62:1, Isaiah 62:2

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:14 - Nathan Psalms 67:2 - saving Matthew 12:18 - and he Mark 16:15 - into Luke 2:10 - to Acts 15:14 - declared 2 Timothy 1:10 - now

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which thou hast prepared,.... In his eternal purposes and decrees, having chosen and foreordained Christ, and appointed him to be his salvation, to the ends of the earth; in his counsel and covenant of grace wherein it was agreed, determined, and concluded on, that he should be the Saviour of his people; and in the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament, and in all the types, shadows, and sacrifices, of that dispensation; in which he was exhibited, and held forth as the Saviour to the saints and believers of those times; and now had sent him in human nature, to work out that salvation he had chosen and called him to, and he had undertook:

before the face of all people; meaning not the congregation of Israel, that looked for redemption in Jerusalem, and who were now together with Simeon and Anna, when the child Jesus was presented in the temple; nor the body of the Jewish nation only, to whom he was made manifest, had they not wilfully shut their eyes, by John's ministry and baptism; and more so, by the miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did by Christ, in the midst of them; but both Jews and Gentiles: for, as he was provided and sent as a Saviour, and a great one, he was to be lifted up on the cross, as the serpent was lifted up by Moses, in the wilderness, to draw all his elect to him, of every nation; and to be set up as an ensign to the people, in the public ministry of the word; to be the object of faith and hope, to look unto, for life and salvation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before the face of all people - Whom thou hast provided for all people, or whom thou dost design to “reveal” to all people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 31. Which thou hast prepared — ο ητοιμασας, which thou hast MADE READY before the face, in the presence, of all people. Here salvation is represented under the notion of a feast, which God himself has provided for the whole world; and to partake of which he has invited all the nations of the earth. There seems a direct allusion here to Isaiah 25:6, c. "In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things," &c. Salvation is properly the food of the soul, by which it is nourished unto eternal life he that receiveth not this, must perish for ever.