Luke 1:71

71 that we should be delivered from our enemies and from the power of all who hate us.

Luke 1:71 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 1:71

That we should be saved from our enemies
This, and the two following verses, either contain and express the sum and substance of what God spake by the prophets; or point out the end or ends of his raising up an horn of salvation, or a Saviour for his people; namely, that they should be saved by him from their enemies: from sin, which wars against the soul, and threatens the destruction of it; from Satan, the avowed and implacable adversary of mankind; from the world, the seed of the serpent, which has always bore an enmity to the seed of the woman; from the law, the killing letter; and from death, the last enemy that is to be destroyed;

and from the hand of all that hate us:
which is only an illustration of the former sentence, or a repetition of it in other words; and designs the same as before.

Luke 1:71 In-Context

69 by raising up for us a mighty Deliverer who is a descendant of his servant David.

70 It is just as he has spoken through the mouth of the prophets from the very beginning --

71 that we should be delivered from our enemies and from the power of all who hate us.

72 "This has happened so that he might show the mercy promised to our fathers -- that he would remember his holy covenant,

73 the oath he swore before Avraham avinu