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But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
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The Pain of Childlessness
Commentators explain that in ancient Jewish culture, childlessness was a source of deep personal anguish and social shame. Understanding this context highlights the immense joy and vindication Elizabeth would experience, framing the subsequent miracle not just as a gift, but as a profound reversal of fortune.
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Because that (καθοτ). Good Attic word, according to what. Only in Luke and Acts in the N.T. In the papyri.
Well str…
19th Century
Anglican
Well stricken in years.—Literally, far advanced in their days.
Baptist
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. And it came to pass, that while he exe…
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To be childless brought sorrow and often shame. At her advanced age, Elizabeth could no longer entertain the hope of each Jewish woman to be the mo…
16th Century
Protestant
And they had no child. By an extraordinary purpose of God it was appointed that John should be born out of the common and ordinary course …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they had no child Son or daughter: and which was accounted a great infelicity: but this was not owing to the jud…
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Presbyterian
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…
