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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Exegesis kathōs elalēsen ‘as he spoke’, subject God. dia stomatos tōn hagiōn aiōnos prophētōn autou ‘through the mouth of his holy prophets of old’. dia stomatos in Luke and Acts always (with the exception of Acts 15:7 where the reference is to the preaching of the Gospel) introduces a quotation of, or a reference to, a word of God in the Old Testament, cp. Acts 1:16, 4:25 (David) 3:18 (all the prophets). hagios ‘holy’ here as an attribute of people consecrated to God, cp. A-G s.v.
Luke 1:70