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Revelation to the Gentiles (apokalupsin ethnōn). Objective genitive. The Messiah is to be light (phōs) for the Gentiles in darkness (Luk 1:70) and glory (doxa) for Israel (cf. Rom 9:1-5; Isa 49:6). The word ethnos originally meant just a crowd or company, then a race or nation, then the nations other than Israel (the people, ho laos) or the people of God. The word Gentile is Latin from gens, a tribe or nation. But the world-wide mission of the Messiah comes out clearly in these early chapters in Luke.