John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;" — Luke 1:71 (ASV)
That we should be saved from our enemies
This, and the two following verses, either contain and express the sum and substance of what God spoke by the prophets; or point out the end or ends of his raising up an horn of salvation, or a Saviour for his people; namely, that they should be saved by him from their enemies:
from sin, which wars against the soul, and threatens the destruction of it; from Satan, the avowed and implacable adversary of mankind; from the world, the seed of the serpent, which has always bore an enmity to the seed of the woman; from the law, the killing letter; and from death, the last enemy that is to be destroyed;
and from the hand of all that hate us :
which is only an illustration of the former sentence, or a repetition of it in other words; and designs the same as before.