Before his face (ενωπιον αυτου). Not in the ancient Greek, but common in the papyri as in LXX and N.T. It is a vernacular Koine…

Shall go before him. Before the Messiah. The connection here leads us to suppose that the word “him” refers to the “Lord their God” in the…

To the wisdom of the just.—The margin, by the wisdom, is undoubtedly the right rendering.

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call hi…

St. Ambrose of Milan: Following the prophecy that he will be the cause of rejoicing for many, the greatness of his virtue is…

The OT prophets were repeatedly concerned with turning the erring people back to God. In this work none was more prominent than Elijah on Mount Car…

And he shall go before him. By these words, the angel points out what John’s office would be and distinguishes him by this characteristic …

And he shall go before him
The Lord his God, the Lord Jesus Christ, whose forerunner he was; the messenger of him, t…

The father and mother of John the Baptist were sinners, as all are, and were justified and saved in the same way as others; but they were distingui…