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Luk 2:30. Εἶδον, have seen) Even his hands held Him: but Simeon adapts his words to those of the promise, Luk 2:26.-τὸ σωτήριόν σου, means of salvation) So ch. Luk 3:6. The language is appropriately put in the abstract, inasmuch as referring to an infant, περὶ τοῦ παιδίου, before that He completed the work of salvation: subsequently He is called the Saviour in the concrete, the appellation which already the Heavenly host had applied to Him in the way of ‘Ampliatio’ [A figure whereby a thing or person is described, not according to what he now is, but what he is about to be. So the angels, in Luk 2:11 above, called Jesus Σωτὴρ.-Append.]. Isa 49:6; Isa 49:9,-τὴν διασπορὰν τοῦ ἸΣΡΑΗΑ ἐπιστρέψαι· ἰδοὺ δέδωκά σε εἰς διαθήκην γένους, εἰς ΦΩΣ ΕΘΝΩΝ, τοῦ εἶναί σε εἰς ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑΝ ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς.-λέγοντα τοῖς ἐν δεσμοῖς, ἐξέλθετε, καὶ τοῖς ἐν τῷ σκότει, ΑΝΑΚΑΛΥΦΘΗΝΑΙ. Thy means of Salvation, i.e. the Christ. For it was this very Christ that even then Simeon was seeing: and it is He whom Simeon calls a Light and the Glory.