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Luk 1:70. Καθὼς ἐλάλησε, as He spake) The point at which Mary left off, Luk 1:55, is the same as that at which Zacharias now begins.-διὰ στόματος, by the mouth) To prophesy cost the prophets no labour in so far as they received the power from God; whatever it cost them, was merely in so far as they had to put forth their prophecies to men hostile to them. They needed merely to lend their mouth [for God to supply the words]: nay, even “a mouth” was given tham, Luk 21:15.-ἁγίων, holy) There was no prophet that was not holy:[18] 2Pe 1:21; Heb 11:32-33.-ἈΠʼ ΑἸῶΝΟς, since the world began) Even from the very beginning there were prophets.
[18] Balaam seems an exception. But perhaps Beng. means by ‘sanctus’ consecrated to God, and set apart from other men by God to His service.-Ed. and Transl.