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Tender mercy (σπλάγχνα ἐλέους)
Lit., bowels of mercy. See on 1Pe 3:8; and Jam 5:11. Rev. gives heart of mercy in margin. Wyc., frightfully, entrails of mercy.
The day-spring from on high (ἀνατολὴ ἐξ ὕψους)
Lit., the rising. The word occurs in the Septuagint as a rendering of branch, as something rising or springing up, by which the Messiah is denoted (Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 6:12). Also of the rising of a heavenly body (Isaiah 60:19, Sept.). Compare the kindred verb arise (ἀνατέλλω) in Isa 60:1; Mal 4:2. This latter is the sense here. See on Mat 2:2. Wyc. has he springing up from on high.
Hath visited (ἐπεσκέψατο)
See on Mat 25:36; and 1Pe 2:12. Some, however, read ἐπισκέψεται, shall visit. So Rev.