He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
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Bede
AD 735
That is, obedient and humble; for he who disdains to be made humble, cannot be saved.
But by seed he means not so much those who are begotten in the flesh, as those who have followed the steps of Abraham's faith, to whom the Savior's coming was promised for evermore.