Luke 2:31 Meaning and Explanation
“Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;”
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What Does Luke 2:31 Mean?
Simeon's song widens. The salvation in his arms was prepared, long planned and now set forth, before the face of all people. Nothing about God's rescue is secret or confined to one nation; it is staged in the sight of the peoples, for the peoples.
From Abraham onward, the promise always aimed past one family to all families of the earth (Genesis 12:3). Simeon, holding one small child in one temple court, sees the whole world in view. God's salvation is public truth, prepared in history, displayed for every people. No reader stands outside the audience of this verse; what God prepared before all faces, He prepared before yours.
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What does Luke 2:31 mean?
This salvation, Simeon says, God has prepared openly before all peoples.