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I] :And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us
 * In the house of his servant David;
 * As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets,
 * Which have been since the world began:
 * That we should be saved from our enemies,
 * And from the hand of all that hate us;
 * To perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
 * And to remember his holy covenant;
 * The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
 * That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies
 * Might serve him without fear,
 * In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
 * And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest:
 * For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord
 * To prepare his ways;
 * To give knowledge of salvation unto his people
 * By the remission of their sins,
 * Through the tender mercy of our God;
 * Whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
 * To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
 * To guide our feet into the way of peace.

And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and