Luke Chapter 4, Verse 19
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19: κηρυξαι ενιαυτον κυριου δεκτον
19: To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
19: To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of
the Lord and the day of reward.
To preach the acceptable {q} year of the Lord. The time when
God is willing to accept of men, or to receive sinners coming to him.
The gospel assures us that the guilty may return, and that God will
graciously receive them. There is, perhaps, here, an allusion to the year
of jubilee -- the fiftieth year, when the trumpet was blown, and through
the whole land proclamation was made of the liberty of Hebrew slaves,
of the remission of debts, and of the restoration of possessions to their
original families, Lev 25:8ff. The phrase "the acceptable year" means
the time when it would be acceptable to God to proclaim such a message,
or agreeable to him -- -to wit, under the gospel.
