

[1:14] 1 tn Grk “This will be joy and gladness.”
[1:14] 3 tn “At his birth” is more precise as the grammatical subject (1:58), though “at his coming” is a possible force, since it is his mission, as the following verses note, that will really bring joy.
[1:25] 5 tn Grk “in the days.”
[1:25] 6 tn Grk “has looked on me” (an idiom for taking favorable notice of someone).
[1:25] 7 sn Barrenness was often seen as a reproach or disgrace (Lev 20:20-21; Jer 22:30), but now at her late age (the exact age is never given in Luke’s account), God had miraculously removed it (see also Luke 1:7).
[1:25] 8 tn Grk “among men”; but the context clearly indicates a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") here.