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72 to fulfill mercy toward our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant,
73 the oath that He swore to Abraham our father, to grant us,
74 having been saved from the hand of our enemies, to serve Him without fear,
75 in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life.
76 And you, child, will be called prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare His ways,
77 to give knowledge of salvation to His people, in forgiveness of their sins,
78 through the affections of compassion of our God, in which the Sunrise will visit us from on high,
79 to shine upon those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.”
80 And the child continued to grow and was strengthened in spirit; and he was in the deserted places until the day of his appearance to Israel.