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NASB | Luke 2:30 For my eyes have seen Your salvation, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 2:30 For my eyes have seen Your Salvation, [Is 52:10] |
Bible Question:
What is this salvation? Note how the Amplified captializes "Salvation!" Did Simeon see salvation as a thing or a Person? Perhaps we need to embrace the Christ Child in the same manner as Simeon - with our eyes not on the creche, but on the cross. Comments? |
Bible Answer: Mommapbs We must think as those in the time depicted in Luke 2. Salvation as known to the Jews was the Messiah. Hence the capitalization of the word. It is a person - Jesus. This is why Simeon can say "For my eyes have seen Your Salvation." Gen. 49:18 “For Your salvation I wait, O LORD." 'The word "salvation" is a figure of speech called "metonymy" (When one name or noun is used in place of another, to which it stands in a certain relation). Put for Him who brings deliverence from all the works of the old serpant (E.W. Bullinger, The Companion Bible).' Simeon is saying (my paraphrase) For my eyes have seen the Messiah, the destroyer of the works of the devil, God made flesh, the Word made flesh, He who is the One by which all was created, He who by which if we shall only believe we can be remade into begottens of God. The Cross is the method by which God used to make all His promises yes and amen in Christ Jesus. It is the cross that God has used to set us free. The cross - the place of death, where He died for us once for all. The cross - where I lay my "self" down to die with Him so I may be raised with Him in newness of life, shouting HALLELUJAH. GREAT IS THE NAME OF THE LORD. Asis |
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