Luke 1:70
As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- sicut locutus est per os sanctorum, qui a sæculo sunt, prophetarum ejus :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καθὼς ἐλάλησεν διὰ στόματος τῶν ἁγίων ἀπʼ αἰῶνος προφητῶν αὐτοῦ,
The Fathers on this verse
Theophylact Catena Aurea
That Christ was born of the house of David, Micah relates, saying, And you, Bethlehem, are not the least in the city of Juda, for out of you shall come a governor who shall rule my people Israel. But all the prophets spoke of the Incarnation, and therefore it is said, As he spoke by the month of his holy prophets.
Greek Expositor Catena Aurea
Whereby he means that God spoke through them, and that their speech was not of man.
St Bede Catena Aurea
But he says, Which have been since the world began. Because all the Scriptures of the Old Testament were a constant prophecy of Christ. For both our father Adam himself, and the other fathers, by their deeds bore testimony to His dispensation.
St Augustine Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John, Chapter XVII. 20
2. In this prayer, therefore, Jesus may seem to have omitted praying for some of His own, unless we carefully examine His words in the prayer itself. For if He prayed first for those, as we have already shown, who were then with Him, and afterwards for those also who should believe on Him through their word, it may be said that He prayed not for those who were neither with Him when He so spake, nor afterwards believed through their word, but had done so at some previous time either of themselves, or in some other supposable manner. …