“Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,”
Because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven — the tender mercy (splanchna eleous, bowels of mercy, the deepest compassion) of God is the origin of the dawn from on high. The rising sun will come to us from heaven (anatolē ex hypsous, a rising from on high) is a double image: the dawn breaking, and a shoot sprouting up — the messianic shoot of Zechariah 3:8 and 6:12. The dawn from on high is Jesus, the light coming from the divine realm.
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