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The Great Promise gives a powerful exegesis of the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke which tells the story of the Advent—focusing on the birth of John the Baptist in preparation for the birth of Christ. It consists of four stenographically recorded biblical lectures which Karl Barth gave to his theology students during Advent in 1934, after his lectures at the University of Bonn had been...

of a sign by which Zechariah is to know: This is it. God has truly entered my life. Verses 21–22. And the people were waiting for Zechari’ah, and they wondered at his delay in the temple. 22 And when he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he made signs to them and remained dumb. A curious sign: The man who can no longer talk, who has lost the power of speech! At the moment when the blessed man is expected to speak, he becomes silent.
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