Luke1:71

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Translation

“salvation

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from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us,

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Paraphrase

He foretold He would provide salvation from our enemies and freedom from the enslaving and oppressing hand of those who hate us,

Footnotes

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Notice that the word “salvation” seems to come out of nowhere; there is something missing. The missing part has been added in a variety of ways by various translators. I choose to reach back to the word “spoken” in the previous verse and see in it the idea of a prophecy, a word that was spoken by God that must be fulfilled because it is His nature to fulfill what He has spoken. Therefore the paraphrase column uses the word “foretold.”

2: “from our enemies and those who hate us”

This is probably a reference to God bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt.