For my eyes have seen your salvation — the Nunc Dimittis's central claim: my eyes have seen your salvation (to sōtērion sou). Not heard about, not believed in, but seen — the salvation is personal, physical, present. The infant in Simeon's arms is the divine salvation in embodied form. Isaiah 40:5 (all flesh shall see the salvation of God) is being fulfilled in this moment: Simeon, holding the salvation in his arms, is the first to fulfill the promise.

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