Luke 1:71 Commentary - Whedon's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

71. That we The true Church of God, consisting of all faithful believers, whether of the old or new dispensation. Zacharias, as an individual, doubtless understood the words in a Jewish sense of the Jewish theocracy, or State Church alone. But the Holy Spirit knew its future application.

Should be saved from our enemies Collectively, the Church shall be preserved in the midst of its wrathful foes, and finally obtain complete victory and triumphant security. Individually, the Christian shall have a divine protection amid both temporal and spiritual dangers, and in the triumphant age of the Church even temporal triumph. The phrase that we should be saved depends upon the phrase (Luk 1:70) as he spake. What God spoke by his holy prophets was that we should be saved, etc., by the power of the Messiah.