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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 1:69 - 1:69
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69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
Ver. 69. An horn of salvation] A cornucopia, or a mighty Saviour, qui instar bovis cornupetae inimicos populi Dei prosternat atque deieciat (Piscater), that can bestir him much better than that he-goat, Alexander the Great, who had a notable horn between his eyes, wherewith he cast down the ram to the ground, and stamped upon him, &c., Dan_8:7. Macedones tunc temporis Aegeades, id est caprini dicti sunt. Occasionem vide. (Justin. lib. 7.) The Macedons were at that time called Goat-sprung.