Luke Chapter 1 verse 51 Holy Bible
He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
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With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.
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He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty [ones] in the thought of their heart.
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He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
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He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
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He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 51-53. - He hath showed strength with his arm; he hath soattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. From adoration, Mary's hymn proceeds to celebrate the mighty results effected by the Divine pity. As so often in thee prophetic strains, the speaker or writer speaks or writes as though the future had become the past; so Mary here describes the Messianic reversal of man's conception of what is great and little, as though the unborn Babe had already lived and done his strange mighty work in the world. The "glorious arm" which, in old days, had wrought such mighty things for Israel, she recognized as belonging to the coming Deliverer (verse 51). His chosen instruments would be those of whom the world thought little, like herself. The proud and mighty would be put down; the men of low degree, and poor and humble, would be exalted. The hungry would be filled; and they who were rich only in this world's goods would have no share in the new kingdom - they would be sent empty away. How strangely had the virgin of Nazareth caught the thought, almost the very words, of the famous sermon her Divine Son, some thirty years later, preached on the mountain-side near Gennesaret!
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(51) He hath shewed strength.--Literally, He wrought strength. Here the parallelism with 1Samuel 2:3 becomes very close. Of whom the speaker thought as among the "proud," we cannot know. They may have been the potentates of the world in which she lived, Herod and the Emperor of Rome. They may have been the men of Jerusalem, who despised Galilee; or those of the other towns and villages of Galilee, who despised Nazareth; or, though less probably, those of Nazareth itself, who despised the carpenter and his betrothed.
