Espoused — It was customary among the Jews, for persons that married to contract before witnesses some time before. And as Christ was to be born of a pure virgin, so the wisdom of God ordered it to be of one espoused, that to prevent reproach he might have a reputed father, according to the flesh.
Verse 27. _TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED_, c.] See Clarke on Matthew 1:18 Matthew 1:23. The reflections of pious father _Quesnel_ on this subject are worthy of serious regard. At length the moment is come whi...
TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED ... - See the notes at Matthew 1:18. Compare the notes at Isaiah 7:14. HOUSE OF DAVID - Family of David, or descendants of David....
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE Analysis and Annotations I. The Birth and Childhood -- Chapter 1-2:52 CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Introduction. (Luke 1:1)_ 2. Zacharias and Elizabeth; the Vision. (Luke 1:5) 3. John th...
PREDICTION OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS. Lk. alone gives this narrative. Three or four months before _the birth of Elisabeth's_ child, Gabriel comes to Nazareth and announces to Mary, a virgin betrothed to o...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a maiden who was betrothed to a man called Joseph, who belonged to the house of David. The maiden's name...
TO. Greek. _pros.App-104._ VIRGIN. This settles the meaning of the Hebrew _`almah_ in Isaiah 7:14. There is no question about the Greek _parthenos._ ESPOUSED. betrothed.. year before marriage. See M...
The Annunciation 26. _in the sixth month_ i. e. after the vision of Zachariah. This is the only passage which indicates the age of John the Baptist, as half a year older than our Lord. _Galilee_ Thus...
_espoused_ Rather, BETROTHED. The betrothal, which is in the East a ceremony of the deepest importance, usually took place a year before the marriage. _Joseph, of the house of David_ We are nowhere to...
THE ANNUNCIATION...
ἘΜΝΗΣΤΕΥΜΈΝΗΝ. Altered by transcribers into the less classical μεμνηστευμένην, a reduplication on the analogy of μέμνημαι. 27. ΠΑΡΘΈΝΟΝ. Isaiah 7:14; Jeremiah 31:22. The many miraculous and glorifying...
VER 26. AND IN THE SIXTH MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT FROM GOD TO A CITY OF GALILEE, NAMED NAZARETH, 27. TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH, OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID; AND THE VIRGIN'...
_THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS ANNOUNCED -- LUKE 1:26-56:_ A month after the announcement of John's birth God sent Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee with a message for a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to a...
ΠΑΡΘΈΝΟΣ (G3933) дева, ΈΜΝΗΣΤΕΥΜΈΝΗΝ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΜΝΗΣΤΕΎΩ (G3423), _pass._ быть помолвленным (_см._ Matthew 1:18; SB, 2:374, 376, 393-98). Ω _dat. sing. от_ ΌΣ (G3739), rel. _pron., dat._...
TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED, &C.— I should render the verse thus: _to a virgin of the house of David, betrothed to a man, whose name was Joseph; and the virgin's name was Mary._ The original will bear this t...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Predictions of the Redeemer (Luke 1:26-56) 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin betrothed to a man...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Promise of the Birth of Jesus Scripture_ Luke 1:26-38 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betro...
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED [RATHER 'BETROTHED' memneesteumeneen (G3423 )] TO A MAN WHOSE NAME W...
18 Zacharias does not believe the glad news. Hence he is stricken dumb, for unbelief has no right to speak of the things of God. 19 Gabriel gave Daniel the explanation of two of his visions (Dan_8:16...
THE ANNUNCIATION (see on Matthew 1). Wonder and awe and adoring praise are the emotions with which Christians have ever regarded the unspeakable condescension of Him who, 'when He took upon Him human...
BIRTH OF JOHN. THE ANNUNCIATION 1-4. Preface. To write a preface to a history is not a Jewish, but a classical custom, and by following it St. Luke shows himself a true Gentile, trained in Greek cult...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ THE AUTHOR Luke wrote two books of the *New Testament (NT). Luke’s *Gospel tells the story of the life and work of Jesus. Luke’s second book, Acts, continues...
TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH. — Of the parentage of Mary the canonical Gospels tell us nothing, and the legends of the apocryphal have no claim to credit. That her mother’s name...
CHAPTER 1 THE GENESIS OF THE GOSPEL. THE four walls and the twelve gates of the Seer looked in different directions, but together they guarded, and opened into, one City of God. So the four Gospels l...
CHAPTER 3 THE GOSPEL PSALMS. UNLIKE modern church-builders, St. Luke sets his chancel by the porch. No sooner have we passed through the vestibule of his Gospel than we find ourselves within a circle...
_The announcement to Mary_....
ἐξ οἴκου Δ.: Mary, Joseph, or both? Impossible to be sure, though the repetition of παρθένου in next clause (instead of αὐτῆς) favours the reference to Joseph....
THE PROMISED MESSIAH Luke 1:26-38 The narrative is artlessly simple and natural and is its own complete vindication. No human genius could have invented it. Compare it, for instance, with all the or...
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the (y) house of David; and the virgin's name [was] Mary. (y) The same can be said of Mary, otherwise Christ would not have been of the stock o...
The word Miriam, or Mary, is expounded by St. Jerome from different etymologies, to signify in Hebrew, star of the sea, and in Chaldaic, lady. Both interpretations admirably well agree with her, who i...
THE ANNUNCIATION TO MARY 26-30. When I visited Nazareth, I spent some time in the Church of the Annunciation, quite magnificent and capacious, said to stand on the identical spot where the angel Gabri...
FIRST PART: THE NARRATIVES OF THE INFANCY, LUKE 1:5 TO LUKE 2:52 Both the first and the third Gospel open with a cycle of narratives relating to the birth and childhood of Jesus. These narratives do n...
1. _The appearance of the angel: Luke 1:26-29_. From the temple the narrative transports us to the house of a young Israelitish woman. We leave the sphere of official station to enter into the seclusi...
SECOND NARRATIVE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS, LUKE 1:26-38 The birth of John the Baptist, like that of Isaac, was due to a higher power; but it did not certainly transcend the limits of the na...
(26) And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, (27) To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
Many had undertaken to give an account of that which was historically received among Christians, as related to them by the companions of Jesus; and Luke thought it well having followed these things fr...
TO A VIRGIN,.... A pure virgin, that never knew man; Luke 1:34 and yet ESPOUSED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH; but they were not come together, nor had he taken her for his wife, and home to his ho...
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name _was_ Mary. Ver. 27. _Espoused to a man_] 1. The better to free her from suspicion of fornication. 2....
_In the sixth month_ Namely, after Elisabeth had conceived; _the angel Gabriel_ The same angel who had been the messenger of such good news to Zacharias; _was sent from God unto a city of Galilee_ A c...
TO A VIRGIN ESPOUSED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH, OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID; AND THE VIRGIN'S NAME WAS MARY. In the sixth month after the Lord had remembered Elisabeth to carry out a part of His design...
THE ANNUNCIATION TO MARY. Gabriel's visit to Nazareth:...
LUKE'S GOSPEL WRITTEN FOR A GENTILE RULER (vs.1-4) Luke's introduction shows that, though he was concerned about giving exact information in this letter to Theophilus, he had not thought of being an...
26-38 We have here an account of the mother of our Lord; though we are not to pray to her, yet we ought to praise God for her. Christ must be born miraculously. The angel's address means only, Hail,...
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Tertullian An Answer to the Jews For to none of men was the universal aggregation of spiritual credentials appropriate, except to Christ; paralleled as He is to a "flower" by reason of glory, by reas...
Luke 1:27 to G4314 virgin G3933 betrothed G3423 (G5772) man G435 whose G3739 name G3686 Joseph G2501 of...
The occurrence here narrated is called the _Annunciation_, ushering in the _Miraculous Conception of Christ._ The account of Matthew presupposes such a miraculous conception (Matthew 1:18-25). There,...
Luke 1:27. Comp. Matthew 1:18. OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID. These words refer to Joseph alone, in this instance; but that Mary was also ‘of the house of David,' seems to be implied in Luke 1:32, and has be...
BETROTHED (εμνηστευμενην). Perfect passive participle. Betrothal usually lasted a year and unfaithfulness on the part of the bride was punished with death (Deuteronomy 23:24)....
Luke 1:26 The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I. "The angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth." Never was a time when, humanly speaking, the promises of God mi...
Luke 1:5. _There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they...
Luke 1:26. _And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgi...
CONTENTS: Birth of John the Baptist foretold. Virgin birth of Jesus foretold. Mary's visit to Elizabeth. Mary's praise because of Jehovah's favor. Birth of John the Baptist. CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit,...
Luke 1:1. _Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things,_ which within a short compass of years have been acted and accomplished among us. In the first age,...
HE HAD A MESSAGE FOR A GIRL. This girl was a VIRGIN - "The Virgin" of Isaiah 7:14_ (see note on_ Matthew 1:23). PROMISED IN MARRIAGE. Equivalent to being married. See note on Matthew 1:19. Who was a d...
_And the virgin’s name was Mary_ THE ANNUNCIATION 1. The messenger sent from heaven to publish the news of the conception of the Son of Gad--an angel. An evil angel was the first author of our ruin...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:27 VIRGIN describes Mary’s condition both before the conception and during pregnancy (Matthew 1:25). BETROTHED. A legally bin
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 1:5 The Infancy Narrative. The opening (Luke 1:8) and conclusion (Luke 2:21) of this secti
THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND BIRTH OF JESUS MATTHEW 1:18-25; LUKE 1:26-38 ANGEL TO JOSEPH ANGEL TO MARY HYPERLINK "TW://BIBLE.*?ID=40.1.18" [VREF] Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his m...
S. LUKE'S GOSPEL Third Edition J OHN H ODGES, AGAR STREET, CHARING CROSS, LONDON. 1892. INTRODUCTION. . T HE _Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to S. Luke_, that is, the Holy Evangelical H...
_To a Virgin espoused to a man_, &c. Espoused, not by betrothal only but by matrimony already contracted, although not actually consummated, see Matthew 1:18. S. Gregory Thaumasius (_Serm._ 3 _de Annu...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 1:26. THE SIXTH MONTH.—_I.e._ not of the year: the reference is to the time indicated in Luke 1:24. NAZARETH—St. Luke alone informs us that this village was the place of Mary’s r...
EXPOSITION THE origin of the Gospels—the four histories which relate in detail the circumstances of the foundation of Christianity—will ever be an interesting study. Here we shall never know the exact...
Luke, the author of this third gospel, was called by Paul the apostle "the beloved physician." There is some speculation that his patron was a man by the name of Theophilus. In those days physicians w...
Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Jeremiah 31:22; Luke 2:4; Luke 2:5;...
THE SEVEN MAGNIFICATS _Selections from Luke 1:1 and Luke 2:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction to the seven Magnificats, we will study the annunciation of the birth of Christ, as it was giv...
THE REVELATIONS OF GOD Luke 1:5 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin here a series of studies taken from the Gospel of Luke. This is the Gospel that emphasizes the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of Man. It wi...
How could Elizabeth be related to Mary when she was from the tribe of Aaron? PROBLEM: According to Luke 1:5, Elizabeth was from the priestly tribe of Aaron. But here in Luke 1:36 she is described as...