confirmation of the faculties of his mind,—he “waxed strong in spirit,” So, verse 52, he is said to “increase in wisdom and stature.”1 He was πληροὐμενος σοφίας, continually “filling and filled” with new degrees “of wisdom,” as to its exercise, according as the rational faculties of his mind were capable thereof; an increase in these things accompanied his years, verse 52. And what is here recorded by the evangelist contains a description of the accomplishment of the prophecy before mentioned,