Verses of Luke 1
Luke 1:15 Commentary - Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
15. Neither wine nor strong drink This is in accordance with the vow of the Nazarite, Num 6:3-4. Similar announcements were made concerning Samson, Jdg 13:4-5, and Samuel, 1Sa 1:11. The Nazarite thus consecrates himself to an over self-severity, in order to raise the people to the idea of self-control and temperance. They were eminent in abstinence, in order by example to raise the popular standard of mastery over bodily appetites. They abstained from what was innocent, either in quality or measure, in order to influence the world to abstain from what was guilty either in kind or in excessive degree. John was to be Nazarite; Jesus was to be the model, not of over self-severity, but of practical and duly measured innocence and right. Paul gives a rule for Christian Nazaritism in 1Co 8:13. Our modern temperance societies are properly a Christian Nazaritism. They are a moral enterprise, aiming to raise the public practice to a standard of temperance by exhibiting an abstinence from even an otherwise innocent measure of indulgence. Strong drink included all exhilarating liquors besides wine. The chemical art of distilling the modern inflaming liquors was unknown to the ancients; but they were able to make intoxicating drinks from the palm-tree, from apples, and from grains. Drunkenness was by no means thereby wholly unknown. See Isa 5:22; Pro 23:29-30.
Holy Ghost… from his mother’s womb Even before birth the plenary influence of the Holy Spirit shall be upon and in his spirit. As soon as the soul shall quicken the unborn, there shall rest a holy power upon it. There is no Scripture ground for supposing with some that the child, even before birth, is no possible subject of sanctifying power.
Verses of Luke 1
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Luke 1:15 - Abbott's Illustrated New Testament
Luke 1:15 - The Greek Testament
Luke 1:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Luke 1:15 - Calvin's Complete Commentary
Luke 1:15 - The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Luke 1:15 - Adam Clarke's Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Luke 1:15 - Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Luke 1:15 - Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Luke 1:15 - Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Luke 1:15 - The Expositor’s Greek Testament by Robertson
Luke 1:15 - Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
Luke 1:15 - Geneva Bible Notes
Luke 1:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Luke 1:15 - Gnomon of the New Testament
Luke 1:15 - Henry Alford's Greek Testament
Luke 1:15 - Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Luke 1:15 - Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Luke 1:15 - Lightfoot Commentary Gospels
Luke 1:15 - Expositions Of Holy Scripture by Alexander MacLaren
Luke 1:15 - Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer's New Testament Commentary
Luke 1:15 - English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Luke 1:15 - Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament
Luke 1:15 - A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Luke 1:15 - John Trapp's Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Luke 1:15 - The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Luke 1:15 - Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament
Luke 1:15 - Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Daniel D. Whedon (1808-1885) was a prominent university professor, theologian, and author. He served as Professor of Ancient Languages at Wesleyan University in Connecticut; as Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Michigan; and as editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review from 1856 to1884. He authored numerous books including Commentary on the New Testament (New York: Carlton & Porter, 1860); Commentary on the Old Testament (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1873); What is Arminianism? (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1879); and Essays, Reviews, and Discourses (New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1887).