Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus First Homily
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever: and of His kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? "[12]
Verse 29. _SHE WAS TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING_] The glorious appearance of the heavenly messenger filled her with amazement; and she was puzzled to find out the purport of his speech....
TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING - Disturbed or perplexed at what he said. It was so unexpected, so sudden, so extraordinary, and was so high an honor, that she was filled with anxious thoughts, and did not kno...
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...
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...
AN HISTORIAN'S INTRODUCTION (Luke 1:1-4)...
WHEN SHE SAW HIM. Omitted by all THE TEXTS. CAST IN HER MIND. beganto reason, or was reasoning. Imperfect Tense....
_And when she saw him, she was troubled_ Rather, BUT SHE WAS GREATLY TROUBLED....
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...
29. The ἸΔΟΥ͂ΣΑ of _Rec_[6] is omitted by אBDLX. [6] _Rec._ The Textus Receptus. 29. Ἡ ΔῈ ἘΠῚ ΤΩ͂Ι ΛΌΓΩΙ ΔΙΕΤΑΡΆΧΘΗ. ‘But she was greatly troubled at the saying.’ ΠΟΤΑΠΌΣ. ‘Of what kind.’ The salut...
THE ANNUNCIATION...
VER 28. AND THE ANGEL CAME IN TO HER, AND SAID, HAIL, YOU THAT ARE HIGHLY FAVORED, THE LORD IS WITH YOU: BLESSED ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN. 29. AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM, SHE WAS TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING, AND CAST...
_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...
ΔΙΕΤΑΡΆΧΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΙΑΤΑΡΆΣΣΩ (G1298) смущать, озадачивать. Предложное сочетание усиливает гл. ΤΑΡΆΣΣΩ, ΔΙΕΛΟΓΊΖΕΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G1260) доказывать, спорить,...
SHE WAS TROUBLED, &C.— _She was disturbed at his discourse, and reasoned with herself,_ or _revolved in her mind, what this salutation should mean._ Heylin, and Doddridge....
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...
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM, SHE WAS TROUBLED ......
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...
1:29 what (a-16) 'Of what nature or character.' what the aim or meaning of it was....
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...
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...
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...
SHE WAS TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING. — The same word is used as had been used of Zacharias. With Mary, as with him, the first feeling was one of natural terror. Who was the strange visitor, and what did th...
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_....
διεταράχθη : assuming that ιδοῦσα (T.R.) is no part of the true text, Godet thinks that Mary _saw_ nothing, and that it was only the _word_ of the angel that disturbed her. It is certainly the latter...
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...
And when she saw [him], she was (b) troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. (b) Moved at the strangeness of the matter....
_When she had heard. In the Greek text, when she had seen; as if she also saw the angel, as St. Ambrose observed. (Witham)_...
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...
29._When she had seen him, she was agitated _Luke does not say that _she was agitated _by the presence of the angel, but _by his address. _Why then does he also mention his presence? (24) The reason,...
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...
AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM,.... The Persic version renders it, "when Mary saw the angel"; which expresses the true sense of the words, The Vulgate Latin reads, "when she heard"; i.e. the salutation: SHE WA...
And when she saw _him_, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. Ver. 29. _She was troubled at his saying_] Affect not the vain praises of men, s...
_When she saw him she was troubled_ Διεταραχθη, _disturbed_ or _perplexed; at his saying_ A salutation so unusual from a being of a superior order (for such his form, which was more than human, bespok...
TROUBLED-CASE IN HER MIND; perplexed at such a strange salutation, and wondered what it could mean....
AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM, SHE WAS TROUBLED AT HIS SAYING, AND CAST IN HER MIND WHAT MANNER OF SALUTATION THIS SHOULD BE....
The message of the angel:...
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,...
It seemeth that she did not only hear a voice, and saw an ordinary appearance, but the appearance of the angel was attended with some manifestation of the glory of God, which affected her, and made he...
Luke 1:29 But G1161 saw G1492 (G5631) troubled G1298 (G5681) at G1909 his G846 saying G3056 and...
Luke 1:29. GREATLY TROUBLED; not at the sight of the angel, but AT THE SAYING. This is further indicated by the clause: WHAT MANNER OF SALUTATION THIS MIGHT BE. Had she been born without sin, she woul...
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,...
CAST IN HER MIND (διελογιζετο). Imperfect indicative. Note aorist διεταραχθη. Common verb for reckoning up different reasons. She was both upset and puzzled....
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 1:26. _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...
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...
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,...
_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 1:5 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...
_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...
1 Samuel 9:20; 1 Samuel 9:21; Acts 10:17; Acts 10:4; Judges 6:13;...
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...