Luke Chapter 2 verse 31 Holy Bible
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples;
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Which you have made ready before the face of all nations;
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which thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples;
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Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
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Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
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which Thou didst prepare before the face of all the peoples,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 31, 32. - Before the face of all people; a Light to lighten the Gentiles; more accurately rendered, all peoples. Men like Isaiah, who lived several centuries before the nativity, with their glorious farreaching prophecies, such as Isaiah 52:10, were far in advance of the narrow, selfish Jewish schools of the age of Jesus Christ. It was, perhaps, the hardest lesson the apostles and first teachers of the faith had to master - this full, free admission of the vast Gentile world into the kingdom of their God. Simeon, in his song, however, distinctly repeats the broad, generous sayings of the older prophets.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) Before the face of all people.--Literally, of all peoples. The word expresses the universality of the salvation which the next verse contemplates in its application to the two great divisions of the human family.