Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 2:35
A sword shall pierce through thy own soul — So it did, when he suffered: particularly at his crucifixion.
A sword shall pierce through thy own soul — So it did, when he suffered: particularly at his crucifixion.
Verse 35. _YEA, A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN SOUL ALSO_] Probably meaning, Thou _also_, as well as thy son, shall die a martyr for the truth. But as this is a metaphor used by the most respect...
YEA, A SWORD ... - The sufferings and death of thy Son shall deeply afflict thy soul. And if Mary had not been thus forewarned and sustained by strong faith, she could not have borne the trials which...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Birth of Christ at Bethlehem (Luke 2:1)_ 2. The Glad Tidings Announced to the Shepherds. (Luke 2:8) 3. The Circumcision and Presentation (Luke 2:21) 4. Simeon and His Prophecy ...
SIMEON. As the family enters the Temple they are met by Simeon, an aged man whose devout life and expectation of Messiah had been rewarded by a Divine intimation that he should live to see the Christ....
Now--look you--there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon. This man was good and pious. He was waiting for the comforting of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. He had received a message from the...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
YEA. And thee. SWORD. Greek. _rhomphaia._ Occurs only here and Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:12; Revelation 2:16; R
_a sword_ The word _rhomphaia_, probably a broad Thracian sword, only occurs elsewhere in the New Testament in Revelation 1:16, &c., but it is used in the LXX., as in Zechariah 13:7, "Awake, O sword,...
Simeon and the Nunc Dimittis 25. _a man … whose name was Simeon_ This cannot be Rabban Shimeon the son of Hillel (whom the Talmud is on this account supposed to pass over almost unnoticed), because h...
SIMEON AND THE NUNC DIMITTIS...
ῬΟΜΦΑΊΑ. Probably a broad Thracian lance (_framea_). The word only occurs elsewhere in the New Testament in Revelation 1:16, &c., but it is used in the LXX[65], as in Zechariah 13:7, “Awake, O sword,...
VER 33. AND JOSEPH AND HIS MOTHER MARVELED AT THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE SPOKEN OF HIM. 34. AND SIMEON BLESSED THEM, AND SAID TO MARY HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS SET FOR THE FALL AND RISING AGAIN O...
ΔΙΕΛΕΎΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΔΙΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1330) проходить через, ΡΟΜΘΑΊΑ (G4501) большой, широкий, обоюдоострый меч. Подобное оружие символизирует предельное горе (Plummer; ΒΟΝΟΗ). ΆΠΟΚΑΛΥΦ...
DISCOURSE: 1478 THE ENDS AND EFFECTS OF CHRIST’S EXHIBITION TO THE WOULD Luke 2:34. _Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken ag...
BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS SET FOR THE FALL, &C.— In this prediction Simeon was directed to use a metaphor, corresponding to that found in Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 28:16 which passages St. Paul has joined in on...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Prophecies (Luke 2:22-38) 22 And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23(a...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Presenting the Child to the Lord Scripture_ Luke 2:22-40 And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem,...
(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. YEA, A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN SOUL ALSO. 'Blessed though thou art among women, t...
25 Simeon signifies to _ hear_, and is representative of those in Judah whose ears were open to the law of the Lord and who looked for the fulfillment of the prophetic promises. As the years spoken of...
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS 1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in connexion with St. Luke's mention of the census of Quirinius: (1) There is no direct evidence, exce...
THE PURIFICATION AND PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. Women after childbirth were unclean, for a boy forty days, for a girl eighty days. They were then bound to present an offering for Purification, viz. a...
YEA, A SWORD] This prophecy was fulfilled when Mary saw her Son rejected, condemned, insulted, scourged, and crucified. THAT THE THOUGHTS] i.e. that the true characters of men (as shown in their rece...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 THE BIRTH OF JESUS 2:1-7 V1 At that time *Caesar Augustus ordered a *census in the *Roman *empire. V2 This was the first *census when Quirinius gov...
A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN SOUL ALSO. — The word used for “sword” here, occurs also in the Apocalypse (Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:12, _et. al._)_,_ but not elsewhere in the New Testament....
καὶ σοῦ, singles out the mother for a special share in the sorrow connected with the tragic career of one destined to be much spoken against (ἀντιλεγόμενον); this inevitable because of a mother's inte...
THE AGED SIMEON'S PROPHETIC BLESSING Luke 2:25-39 Two aged watchers welcomed the King; but no one else, of all the crowds who went and came, guessed that the Messenger of the Covenant had suddenly c...
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover, by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless crowd. This was according to the divine arrangement and foret...
(Yea, a sword shall (t) pierce through thy own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. (t) Will most keenly wound and grieve....
And thy own soul a sword shall pierce. These words, which figuratively express the grief of the blessed Virgin mother, when present at the death of her Son, are to be taken by way of a parenthesis. --...
CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS & HIS PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE 21-24. _“And when the eight days for circumcising Him were fulfilled, and He was called Jesus, being called by the angel before he was conceived...
A carnal satisfaction, full of delusive hopes might easily have taken possession of the hearts of these parents, especially of the mother's, on hearing such words as these. But Simeon infuses into his...
SIXTH NARRATIVE: CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF JESUS, LUKE 2:21-40. This narrative comprises 1. The circumcision of Jesus (Luke 2:21); 2. His presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-38); 3. A histori...
(25) And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon: and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. (26) And it was reve...
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...
35._But also a sword shall pierce thy own soul _This warning must have contributed greatly to fortify the mind of the holy virgin, and to prevent her from being overwhelmed with grief, when she came t...
In the next chapter (2) the scene changes. Instead of the relations of God with Israel according to grace, we see first the pagan emperor of the world the head of Daniel's last empire exercising his p...
YEA, A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN SOUL ALSO,.... Meaning either the sword, "or spear of scandal", as the Arabic version renders it; so the calumny, and reproach of the tongues of men, is compa...
(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. Ver. 35. _Yea, a sword shall pierce, &c._] This confutes that of Plautus: _Mulier nulla cordic...
_And Simeon blessed them_ Namely, Joseph and Mary. He pronounced them blessed who had the honour to be related to this child, and were intrusted with the bringing him up. He prayed for them, that God...
A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN SOUL; generally understood of the anguish which she would be called to endure as a witness of the Saviour's sufferings and death. THE THOUGHTS OF MANY HEARTS MAY...
(YEA, A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THY OWN SOUL ALSO,) THAT THE THOUGHTS OF MANY HEARTS MAY BE REVEALED. Whereas in the story of the shepherds only Mary is mentioned as having taken careful note of th...
Simeon blesses Joseph and Mary:...
THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS (vs.1-7) God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events of man's government to accomplish His own will. Caesar Augustus decreed that all the world ...
25-35 The same Spirit that provided for the support of Simeon's hope, provided for his joy. Those who would see Christ must go to his temple. Here is a confession of his faith, that this Child in his...
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Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate And the mother of God said, weeping: How am I not to lament thee, my son? How should I not tear my face with my nails? This is that, my son, which Symeon the...
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JESUS IS CIRCUMCISED AND PRESENTED AT THE TEMPLE AND IS BLESSED BY SIMON WHO PROPHESIES OVER HIM (2:21-35). The purification of Mary and Jesus from the ritual defilement of child birth was necessary d...
‘And his father and his mother were marvelling at the things which were spoken concerning him, and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother,' “Behold, this child is set for the falling and th...
Luke 2:35. YEA, A SWORD SHALL PIERCE THROUGH THINE OWN SOUL. The sentence is parallel with the last, and should not be put in parentheses. The rejection and suffering of Christ has just been indicated...
The fulfilment of the legal requirements respecting the child Jesus: His circumcision and naming on the eighth day (Luke 2:21), as one of the Jewish people, and the redemption from the temple service...
A SWORD (ρομφαια). A large sword, properly a long Thracian javelin. It occurs in the LXX of Goliath's sword (1 Samuel 17:51). How little Mary understood the meaning of Simeon's words that seemed so...
Luke 2:34 I. That is the claim which Christ has upon us; that He _knows_us. As it is said, "He knew what was in man," and He does not merely know our faces, our forms, but our true selves. You know no...
Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
Luke 2:21. _And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb._ Although the old...
CONTENTS: Birth of Jesus. His adoration by the shepherds. Adoration and prophecy of Simon and Anna. Return to Nazareth. Jesus and His parents at the Passover. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Caesar, Augustus, Cyr...
Luke 2:1. _It came to pass in those days,_ when John was born, and when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in the thirty first year of his reign, that, a decree was issued f...
AND SORROW, LIKE A SHARP SWORD. Happiness and sorrow will both fill her heart. He would be a king, but he must go by way of the Cross. The preaching of Christ produces either hate or love....
_Behold, this Child is set for the fall and rising again of many_ SIMEON’S PREDICTION This prediction has a very gloomy aspect, and speaks with a tone of sad foreboding in strange contrast to the ri...
_Whose name was Simeon_ READINESS FOR GOD’S WILL “Some years ago,” says a lady, “I made the acquaintance of an old peasant in a little German village, where I for some time resided. He was called Go...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:34 FALL refers to judgment; RISING refers to salvation. A SIGN THAT IS OPPOSED foretells future opposition to Jesus. SWORD refers t
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:1 Luke records the events of Jesus’ birth (vv. Luke 2:1), his presentation in the temple (vv. Luke 2:21), and his visit
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _And it came to pass in those days_ (in which John the Baptist was born) _there went forth a decree_, &c. The Syriac for "all the world," has "all the people of his dominion," subjec...
Observe here how God joins and couples in Christ the humble with the sublime, the human with the divine, the poison with the antidote, to show that in Him human nature was joined to the Divine Majesty...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:21. THE CHILD.—The best MSS. read “Him.” Luke 2:22. HER PURIFICATION.—The true reading is, “_their_ purification” (R.V.). The mother was ceremonially unclean by child-birth, t...
EXPOSITION LUKE 2:1 _The Redeemer's birth_. LUKE 2:1 THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED; more accurately, _that there should be a registration_, etc.;...
Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And the taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syra.) And all we...
1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 John 2:19; Acts 8:21; Deuteronomy 8:2;...
A sword [ρ ο μ φ α ι α]. Strictly, a large Thracian broadsword. Used in Setpuagint of the sword of Goliath (1 Samuel 17:51). A figure of Mary's pang when her son should be nailed to the cross....
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...