“To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;”
To show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant — mercy (eleos) and covenant (diathēkēs) are the two great Old Testament concepts for God's faithfulness to Israel. To show mercy is to act in accordance with the covenant relationship. To remember his holy covenant: God's remembering is not the recovery of forgotten information but the active implementation of what was always promised — the same language as God remembering Noah (Genesis 8:1) and Abraham (Exodus 2:24).
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