Bede the Venerable, on Luke 1:67

“And Zachary his father was filled with the Holy Ghost; and he prophesied, saying:”

“But the Lord visited His people who were pining away as it were from long sickness, and by the blood of His only begotten Son, redeemed them who were sold under sin. Which thing Zacharias, knowing that it would soon be accomplished, relates in the prophetic manner as if it were already passed. But he says, His people, not that when He came He found them His own, but that by visiting He made them so.”

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