Luke 1:6 - Exposition

And they were both righteous before God . "One of the oldest terms of high praise among the Jews ( Genesis 6:9 ; Genesis 7:1 ; Genesis 18:23-28 ; Ezekiel 18:5-9 , etc.). It is used also of Joseph ( Matthew 1:1-25 : 19), and is defined in the following words in the most technical sense of strict legal observance, which it had acquired since the days of Maccabees. The true Jashar (upright man) was the ideal Jew. Thus Rashi calls the Book of Genesis 'The book of the upright, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob '" (Farrar).