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Matthew 2:14
When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
WHEN HE AROSE - Having arisen; that is, he arose immediately after awaking from his dream, and prepared at once to obey the command, BY NIGHT - Thus he showed his prompt obedience to the command, and...
2. THE KING WORSHIPPED BY GENTILES; Jerusalem in Ignorance of Him; the Child Persecuted. 1. The Visit of the Wise Men.(Matthew 2:1 .) 2. The Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13 .) 3. The Return from Eg...
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. While Mt. says Jesus was born before Herod's death (how long before he does not say), Lk. suggests, by his reference to Quirinius, that it was...
WHEN HE AROSE, HE TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD. The message came while he was sleeping; as soon as he arose from his bed he took the Child and his mother and departed at once. There was prompt obedience, as t...
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
When they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph. "Rise, he said, "and take the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; fo...
TOOK. took with [him]....
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT...
ἈΝΑΧΩΡΕΙ͂Ν (1) ‘to retire’ from danger as here, and chs. Matthew 4:12; Matthew 12:16, and elsewhere; (2) in the later Classics ‘to retire from business or public life;’ (3) in Ecclesiastical writers ‘...
Ver 13. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise, and take the young Child and His mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until...
_THE CHRIST IS TAKEN INTO EGYPT MATTHEW 2:13-15:_ The wise men “being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod departed into their own country another way.” (Matthew 2:12) Instead...
ΈΓΕΡΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass._part, (conytete.) _пот. masc. sing. от_ ΈΓΕΊΡΩ (G1453) вставать, ΠΑΡΈΛΑΒΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Matthew 2:13. ΝΥΚΤΌΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΝΎΞ (G3571) ночь. _Gen._ времени — "ночью...
SECTION 4. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND RETURN TEXT: 2:13-23 13. Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his...
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: WHEN HE AROSE, HE TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER BY NIGHT - doubtless the same night - "and departed i...
1 David 1 Ozias 2 Solomon 2 Joatham 3 Roboam 3 Achaz 4 Abijah 4 Hezekiah 5 Asaph 5 Manasseh 6 Josaphat 6 Amos 7 Joram 7 Josiah [Ahaziah] [Jehoahaz] [Jehoash] [Jehoiakim] [Amaziah] [Jechon...
FLIGHT INTO EGYPT (peculiar to St. Matthew). Egypt was the only place of refuge easily reached from Bethlehem. It was outside the dominions of Herod, under Roman government, and contained a population...
THE WISE MEN 1-12. The star in the east and the visit of the Magi (peculiar to St. Matthew). The incident fits well into secular history. About the time when the star appeared (7 or 6 b.c.), Herod the...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 WISE MEN VISIT JESUS 2:1-12 V1 Jesus was born in the town called Bethlehem. This was in Judea district. At this time, Herod was th...
HE TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER. — The form adopted here, as in the preceding verse, is significantly reverential. In a narrative of common life the natural expression would have been “his wife...
CHAPTER 2 His Reception - Matthew 2:1 THIS one chapter contains all that St. Matthew records of the Infancy. St. Mark and St. John tell us nothing, and St. Luke very little. This singular reticence h...
ὁ δὲ ἐγερθεὶς : Joseph promptly executes the command, νυκτός, before the day, indicating alarm as well as obedience. The words of the command in Matthew 2:13 are repeated by the evangelist in Matthew...
_Flight to Egypt, massacre in Bethlehem, return to Nazareth_. These three stories have one aim. They indicate the omens which appear in beginnings _omina principiis inesse solent_ (Ovid). The fortunes...
_Flight to Egypt_....
GOD RULES AND OVERRULES Matthew 2:9-15 The suggestion has been hazarded that “the star” was an unusual combination of three planets; but this would conflict with the disappearance and reappearance of...
The Kingdom was not ready for the King, so a reception for Him was not arranged and organized by those who should have been waiting for Him. They were in rebellion. The King's advent was heralded by a...
It is very probable that Joseph, with Jesus and his Mother, remained in some part of Egypt, where the Jews were settled, as at Alexandria. That many Jews dwelt in Egypt, particularly from the time of...
SOJOURN IN EGYPT 13-15. Now Joseph, a true, godly man, dreams. God talks to him in the stilly hours of his nightly slumber. It is a long way for Mary to ride a donkey, and carry the Babe in her lap. F...
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. It is worthy observation, here all along ment...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
Thus born, thus characterised by the angel and fulfilling the prophecies that announced the presence of Emmanuel, He is formally acknowledged King of the Jews by the Gentiles, who are guided by the wi...
WHEN HE AROSE, HE TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER,.... That is, as soon as he awoke out of sleep, and rose from his bed, he did as he was commanded, he prepared for his journey; and very opportune...
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: Ver. 14. _When he arose he took the young child, &e._] Whither God leads, we must cheerfully follow, though he...
_When he arose_ Viz., from his bed, _he took the young child_, &c. He immediately obeyed the heavenly vision, _and departed into Egypt_ With as hasty a flight as their circumstances would allow. _And...
The deeply interesting account of Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of her Lord, the details as to His birth in Bethlehem, the visit of the shepherds to the manger in which H...
13-15 Egypt had been a house of bondage to Israel, and particularly cruel to the infants of Israel; yet it is to be a place of refuge to the holy Child Jesus. God, when he pleases, can make the worst...
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The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew Now the day before this was done Joseph was warned in his sleep by the angel of the Lord, who said to him: Take Mary and the child, and go into Egypt by the way of the de...
Matthew 2:14 When G1161 arose G1453 (G5685) took G3880 (G5627) Child G3813 and G2532 His G846 mother...
a ‘And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod.' Obediently Joseph did as he was told, and taking the young child and...
JESUS IS DRIVEN INTO EXILE AND FINALLY RETURNS TO LOWLY NAZARETH (2:12-23). As a result of a warning dream the Magi did not return to Herod but slipped out of the country ‘another way', while Joseph s...
CHRONOLOGY. We place the flight into Egypt a _fter_ the presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-39). The latter took place on the fortieth day, and the interval which this allows is too brief for the ev...
Matthew 2:14. AND HE AROSE. Implying immediate obedience; characteristic of genuine faith. BY NIGHT, _i.e._, the same night. DEPARTED, or, ‘withdrew,' the same word which was used respecting the M...
Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,_ Probably from that Assyria which is joined with Is...
CONTENTS: Visit of the Magi, flight into Egypt, Herod's slaughter of the innocents. Return of Joseph and Mary to Nazareth. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Herod, chief priests, scribes, wise me...
Matthew 2:1. _Jesus was born in Bethlehem,_ as is illustrated in Micah 5:2. _In the days of Herod the king,_ the son of Antipater, and father of Archelaus, who succeeded him on the throne. Herod, who...
JOSEPH GOT UP, TOOK THE CHILD. The message came in a dream. He got up and left immediately. Divine commands should be promptly obeyed....
_Departed into Egypt._ I. The natural seed of Israel, as called out of Egypt. II. The divine seed, the man Christ Jesus. III. The chosen seed that shall be brought out of Egypt. (_C. H. Spurgeon._)...
CHAPTER 2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Juda in the days of king Herod. It is better to read here in the Greek _in Bethlehem-Juda_. Juda means the tribe of Judah, to which, after the schism...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 2:13. EGYPT.—At all times the readiest place of refuge for the Israelites, whether from famine or from political oppression. In Alexandria the Jews numbered a fifth of the po...
EXPOSITION JESUS THE CHRIST BY HIS EARLY HISTORY answering to the word of God by the prophets. This is shown by four particulars, for each of which a corresponding prophecy is adduced. (1) The place...
Chapter Two Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king (Matthew 2:1), This is Herod the Great, that little short monster. He was a little over four feet tall, and as...
Acts 26:21; Matthew 1:24; Matthew 2:20; Matthew 2:21...