To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
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Gill's Exposition
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers,.... By "mercy" is meant salvation by Christ, which springs from the mercy of God; the promise of which was an instance of mercy to the Jewish fathers…
Barnes' Notes
To perform the mercy - To show the mercy promised. The expression in the “original” is, “To make mercy with our fathers” - that is, to show kindness to our fathers; and the propriety of it is founded…
We have here the song wherewith Zacharias praised God when his mouth was opened; in it he is said to prophesy (Luk 1:67), and so he did in the strictest sense of prophesying; for he foretold things to…
mercy … remember … oath These three words have been thought by some to be an allusion to the three names John (-Jehovah's mercy"); Zacharias (- rememberedby Jehovah"), and Elizabeth (see p. 45). Such…
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