Luke 2:29-31 Lord, now let you your servant depart in peace, according to your word:… These words have been the triumphant death-song of true martyrs. One of them, in the fourteenth century, Maximilian Hostialick, told the officer on the scaffold that he would repeat the song of Simeon, and then the executioner might do his duty. He accordingly lifted up his voice: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation"; and then fell the blow that severed his head from the body. (A. C. Thompson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:WEB: "Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace; |
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