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Luk 1:78. Διὰ, through) Construe with ἀφέσει, remission-through, etc.-ἐλέους, of mercy) An allusion to the name John: [In Hebr. = the mercy or grace of the Lord.]-[ἐπεσκέψατο ἡμᾶς, hath visited us) He was the Saviour even before that He assumed human nature. For His incarnation was a visiting of us of His own free choice.-V. g.]-ἀνατολὴ) So the LXX. render צמח, Zec 3:8; Zec 6:12; Jer 23:5 : for צמח is also said of the dawn of daylight. See John Gregor. Observ. c. 18, Tom. vii. Crit. col. 585, where there is a copious and admirable dissertation. There is a Metonymy of the Abstract for the Concrete, Day-spring [day-rising], i.e. the Sun-rising. See following verse [“to give light,” etc., which applies to the sun itself, not to its rising]; Jos 9:1; Rev 22:16.-ἐξ ὓψους, from on high) This is said concerning the Son of God in this passage, and concerning the Holy Ghost in ch. Luk 24:49 [Endued with power from on high]: comp. Gal 4:4; Gal 4:6. So [The second man is the Lord] from heaven, 1Co 15:47.