Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel. There was salvation in this sight: there was light in it; and there was glory in it also. He will be — said Simeon — "the glory of Thy people Israel." The prophet Isaiah was speaking of this same Saviour, when he said "They shall hang on Him all the glory of His Father's house" (Isaiah 22:24). The chief glory that a nation has is made up of the wise, and good, and great, and useful men who have belonged to it. We speak of Washington as the glory of America. We feel it an honour to belong to the nation which could claim Washington as one of its people. In Holland they call William, Prince of Orange, the glory of their nation. England, our grand old mother country, has had so many wise, and good, and great men, that it is hard to tell which to speak of as the best and greatest. They all help to make up the glory of the people of England. And any one who was born in England may feel it an honour to belong to a country which has produced so many good and great men. And in the same way it is the glory of the Jewish nation, or of Israel, as a people, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, belonged to their nation. Jesus was a Jew. And the Jewish people may well feel it an honour to belong to the nation among whom He was born. It is true in this sense that He is "the glory of His people Israel." (Dr. Newton.) Parallel Verses KJV: A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.WEB: a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel." |
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