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Now it happened, while he executed the priest`s office before God in the order of his division,
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A Once-in-a-Lifetime Duty
Commentators explain that due to the large number of priests, the opportunity to burn incense in the temple was a once-in-a-lifetime honor. This wasn't just another day at work for Zacharias; it was the climactic moment of his priestly career, which God chose for this dramatic announcement.
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While he executed the priest's office (εν τω ιερατευειν αυτον). A favourite idiom in Luke, εν with the articular infinitive and th…
19th Century
Anglican
In the order of his course.—This was settled by rotation. Attempts have been made by reckoning back from the date of the destructi…
Baptist
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, according to the custom of the priest's …
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The “division” (GK 2389) was one of twenty-four groups of priests divided by families and structured after the pattern of 1Ch 23 and 24 (cf. [Refer…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office To which he was calle…
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…
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