Luke 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins, All great rivers, unlike some great men who have begun life in lowly circumstances, boast a lofty descent. It is after the Alpine traveller has left smiling valleys beneath him, and toiling along rugged glens and through deep mountain gorges, reaches at length the shores of an icy sea, that he stands at the source of the river, which, cold as the snows that feed it, and a full-grown torrent at its birth, rushes out from the cavern of the hollowed glacier. Yet such a river, in the loftiness of its birth-place, is but an humble image of salvation. How high its source! "He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." (T. Guthrie, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,WEB: to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins, |
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