Luke 1:75 — Community Reflections

LUKE 1:75 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.”

In holiness and righteousness before him all our days — the service is characterized as holy and righteous (in right relationship with God and others) before him (in the divine presence) all our days. The all our days communicates the comprehensive temporal scope: not a moment of worship but a life of worship. The holiness and righteousness are the Old Testament standards for the covenant life — the life that the coming salvation will make possible.

Church Fathers on Luke 1:75

Zacharias glorifies the Lord, because He has made us to serve Him with full confidence, not in the flesh as Judah did with the blood of victims, but in the spirit with good works. And this is what he means by in holiness and righteousness. For holiness is, a proper observance of our duty towards God, righteousness of our duty towards man; as, for example, when a man devoutly performs the Divine commands, and lives honorably among his fellow men. But he does not say “before…
Chrysostom · 4th century

For whosoever either departs from God’s service before he dies, or by any uncleanness stains either the strictness or purity of his faith, or strives to be holy and righteous before men, and not before God, does not yet serve the Lord in perfect freedom from the hand of his spiritual enemies, but after the example of the old Samaritans endeavors to serve equally the Gods of the Gentiles, and his Lord.
Bede · 8th century

Catena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain

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