Luke Chapter 1
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1:77. To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission of their sins.
1:78. Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:
The Orient.... It is one of the titles of the Messias, the true light of the world, and the sun of justice.
1:79. To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.
1:80. And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit: and was in the deserts until the day of his manifestation to Israel.