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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...

do with John and a second which has to do with Jesus, but both sections are totally concerned with the same: the birth of Jesus Christ. And the birth of John the Baptist belongs to the birth of Jesus Christ. Let us for a moment dwell on the fact that here is told the beginning of a life, the pre-history of a man, the story of the childhood of John which then is followed by the story of the childhood of Jesus. What is the meaning of this? We know of various childhood stories in Holy Scripture. We
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