Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 2:22
He was afraid to go thither — into Judea; and so turned aside into the region of Galilee — a part of the land of Israel not under the jurisdiction of Archelaus.
He was afraid to go thither — into Judea; and so turned aside into the region of Galilee — a part of the land of Israel not under the jurisdiction of Archelaus.
Verse Matthew 2:22. _WHEN HE HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS DID REIGN_] Herod, having put Antipater his eldest son to death, altered his will, and thus disposed of his dominions: he gave the tetrarchy of Galil...
HE HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS DID REIGN - Archelaus possessed a cruel and tyrannical disposition similar to his father. At one of the Passovers he caused 3,000 of the people to be put to death in the temple...
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 SETTLEMENT AT NAZARETH. By Herod's will Archelaus (p. 609) held the title of King till the Emperor Augustus forbade it. In Galilee, another of Herod's sons, Antipas (p. 609), was tetrarch. There i...
WHEN HE HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS DID REIGN IN JUDEA. Archelaus is one of the four sons of Herod who are named in the New Testament. He was excluded by will from any part in the kingdom, but subsequently,...
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
When Herod died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. "Rise, he said, "and take the little child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For those who seek the...
ARCHELAUS. See App-109. IN. over. Greek. _epi._ See App-104. L. [Tr.] [A] WH omit _epi._ IN THE ROOM OF. instead of. Greek. _anti._ App-104. TURNED ASIDE. departed, as in verses: Matthew 2:12; Matt...
_Archelaus_ A son of Herod the Great. His mother was Malthaké, a Samaritan. After a cruel and disturbed reign (under the title of Ethnarch) of about eight years he was banished to Vienna in Gaul the m...
ἈΡΧΈΛΑΟΣ. A son of Herod the Great. His mother was Malthaké, a Samaritan. After a cruel and disturbed reign (under the title of Ethnarch) of about eight years he was banished to Vienna in Gaul—the mod...
VER 21. AND HE AROSE, AND TOOK THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND CAME INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 22. BUT WHEN HE HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS DID REIGN IN JUDAEA IN THE ROOM OF HIS FATHER HEROD, HE WAS AFRAID...
_THE CHRIST RETURNED OUT OF EGYPT MATTHEW 2:19-23:_ Joseph did just as God said. He stayed in Egypt until he had a word from God._ _ After the death of King Herod Joseph was told to take the child and...
ΆΚΟΎΣΑΣ _aor. act. part., см._ Matthew 2:3. Это _part._ могло бы быть _temp._ или причинным, ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΕΙ _praes. act. ind. от_ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΩ (G936) быть царем. Гл., оканчивающиеся на -ΕΎΩ, указывают на заня...
ARCHELAUS— He was the sixth son of Herod, and the most cruel of all those who survived him. He caused three thousand citizens to be murdered at one time in the temple. Herod in his will appointed him...
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...
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of G...
18 Compare Jer_31:15. 18 The name “Rama” was a common one for a site on a hill. There was probably such a place near Bethlehem beside the tomb of Rachel, who died there in sorrow (Gen_35:19-20). Ther...
ARCHELAUS] see art. 'The Dynasty of the Herods.' DID REIGN] RV 'was reigning.' Properly speaking Archelaus was only an 'éthnarch,' but ethnarchs and tetrarchs were popularly called 'kings'. Augustus h...
RETURN TO PALESTINE. SETTLEMENT AT NAZARETH. It is implied that Joseph had settled at Bethlehem and intended to remain there as the most suitable place for bringing up the future Messiah. But God judg...
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...
ARCHELAUS. — Strictly speaking, this prince, who, under his father’s will (made just before his death), governed Judæa, Samaria, and Idumæa, was never recognised as a king by the Roman Emperor, but re...
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...
_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...
_Settlement in Nazareth in Galilee_. Joseph returns with mother and child to _Israel_, but not to Judaea and Bethlehem. ἀκούσας … Ἡρῴδου : Archelaos reigns in his father's stead. A man of kindred natu...
“OUT OF EGYPT DID I CALL MY SON” Matthew 2:16-23 The death of those little children was very pathetic. From the first it seemed as though our Lord's advent would bring not peace, but the sword. Their...
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...
THE HOLY FAMILY RETURN FROM EGYPT 19-23, & Luke 2:39-40. _“And Herod having died.”_ We do not know how long they remained in Egypt, but evidently the period was brief. Scarcely has the wail of the sla...
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. The most interesting of all subjects, is to eye CHRIST as t...
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...
BUT WHEN HE HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS,.... This Archelaus was a son of Herod the great by Malthace Samaritan, and was appointed by him for his successor a little before his death, and was upon it declared...
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Ga...
_And he arose_ Joseph obeyed the angel, and, it appears, would gladly have gone to Judea, probably to Bethlehem, because from his own knowledge of the prophecies, as well as from the decision of the s...
BUT WHEN HE HEARD THAT ARCHELAUS DID REIGN IN JUDEA IN THE ROOM OF HIS FATHER HEROD, HE WAS AFRAID TO GO THITHER. Herod, indeed, was dead, but Augustus had divided his kingdom among his three sons. Ar...
Joseph lost no time in obeying the command:...
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...
19-23 Egypt may serve to sojourn in, or take shelter in, for awhile, but not to abide in. Christ was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, to them he must return. Did we but look upon the wo...
Ver. 21,22. The true King of the Jews being born, the singular providence of God so ordered it, that there was no more constituted governors of Judea under the title of kings, though they are said to...
Matthew 2:22 But G1161 heard G191 (G5660) that G3754 Archelaus G745 reigning G936 (G5719) over G1909 Judea...
a ‘But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned of God in a dream, he withdrew into the parts of Galilee, 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 2:22. ARCHELAUS. Four sons of Herod (the Great) are mentioned in the New Testament. (He had ten wives and fourteen children.) (1) _Herod Antipas,_ the murderer of John the Baptist (frequently...
WARNED IN A DREAM (χρηματισθεις κατ' οναρ). He was already afraid to go to Judea because Archelaus was reigning (ruling, not technically king, βασιλευε). In a fret at last before his death Herod had...
ARCHELAUS Son of Herod the Great, (Matthew 2:1) and Malthace, a Samaritan woman. Deposed A.D. 6....
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...
WHEN HE HEARD. Archelaus is one of the four sons of Herod who are mentioned in the New Testament. (See _note on_ Matthew 2:1.) JOSEPH WAS AFRAID. This implies he had intended to settle there,...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 2:22 ARCHELAUS was one of Herod the Great’s sons. He followed Herod as ruler over Judea, Samaria, and Idumea, from 4 B.C.–A.D. 6. He was cruel like his father, and the Jews hat...
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 2:22. ARCHELAUS.—Succeeded to Judæa, Samaria and Idumea, but Augustus refused him the title of king till it should be seen how he conducted himself, giving him only the title...
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...
1 Samuel 16:2; Acts 9:13; Acts 9:14; Genesis 19:17; Isaiah 30:21;...