Luke 2:32 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

A light for revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of thy people Israel.

KJV

A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

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Commentary

3 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (373)

(non occ.) For the Gentiles before the coming of Christ were lying in the deepest darkness, being without the knowledge of God.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 4 (444)

The mystery of Christ had been prepared even before the very foundation of the world but was manifested in the last ages of time. It became a light for those who in darkness and error had fallen under the devil's hand. These were they "who serve the creature instead of the Creator," worshiping moreover the dragon, the author of evil, and the impure throng of devils, to whom they attach the honor due God.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

A light to lighten the Gentiles,.... Or for the revelation of the Gentiles; to reveal the love, grace, and mercy of God, an everlasting righteousness, and the way of life and salvation to them. Reference seems to be had to Isa 42:

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Moses was promised that he should see Canaan, and then die; but he prayed that this word might be altered, Deut. iii. Simeon is promised that he should not see death till he had seen Christ; and he is willing to construe that beyond what was expressed, as an intimation that, when he had seen Christ, he should die: Lord, be it so, saith he, now let me depart.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A light to lighten the Gentiles - Φως εις αποκαλυψιν εθνων - A light of the Gentiles, for revelation. By Moses and the prophets, a light of revelation was given to the Jews, in the blessedness of which the Gentiles did not partake. By Christ and his apostles, a luminous revelation is about to be given unto the Gentiles, from the blessedness of which the Jews in general, by their obstinacy and unbelief, shall be long excluded.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
φῶς	phōs	a light	G5457 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
ἀποκάλυψιν	apokalupsin	revelation	G602 →
ἐθνῶν	ethnōn	of [the] Gentiles	G1484 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
δόξαν	doxan	glory	G1391 →
λαοῦ	laou	of [the] people	G2992 →
σου	sou	of You	G4771 →
Ἰσραήλ.¶	Israēl	of Israel.	G2474 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 49:6
He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light…
leads to
- Acts 13:47
  For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
- Isaiah 42:6
  “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a…
- Psalms 98:2–3
  The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
- Isaiah 52:10
  The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- Luke 24:46–47
  And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
Through
Acts 26:23
that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
leads to
- Isaiah 53:1–12
  Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
- Luke 24:26
  Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
- Colossians 1:18
  And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.