Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X
We must therefore inquire whether, by the expression, "His own country," is meant Nazareth or Bethlehem,-Nazareth, because of the saying, "He shall be called a Nazarene,"[96]
Verse Matthew 2:23. _THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE_ _PROPHETS_] It is difficult to ascertain by what prophets this was spoken. The margin usually refers to Judges 13:5, where the...
AND HE CAME AND DWELT - That is, he made it his permanent residence. The Lord Jesus, in fact, resided there until he entered on the work of his ministry until he was about 30 years of age. IN A CITY C...
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...
AND HE CAME AND DWELT IN. CITY CALLED NAZARETH. Matthew makes no mention of the previous residence at Nazareth, for that did not harmonize with his purpose, which was especially to point out to the J...
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...
DWELT. settled. IN. Greek. _eis._ NAZARETH. His former residence. App-169. TheAramaic name. See App-94. See note on verses: Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:11, in, and Luke 2:39. THAT. so that. spoken
_a city called Nazareth_ St Matthew gives no intimation of any previous residence of Mary and Joseph at Nazareth. _Nazareth_ Said to signify "the Protectress" (Hebr. _natsar_), a small town of centra...
ΝΑΖΑΡΈΘ. The MSS. vary wherever this name occurs between Ναζαρέθ, Ναζαρέτ, Ναζαρὰθ and Ναζαρά, so that the orthography cannot be determined. 23. ΕἸΣ ΠΌΛΙΝ ΛΕΓΟΜΈΝΗΝ ΝΑΖΑΡΈΘ. St Matthew gives no intim...
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...
ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.)_ ΚΑΤΏΚΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΈΩ (G2730) жить, обитать, поселяться, ΛΕΓΟΜΈΝΗΝ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΌΠΩΣ с _conj._ чтобы, ΠΛΗΡΩΘΉ (G41...
A CITY CALLED NAZARETH— Which was a small town of the lower Galilee, near the frontiers of the tribes of Zebulon and Issachar. In the description of the Nazarite given Numbers 6 we learn that he was f...
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...
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. AND HE CAME AND DWELT IN A CITY CALLED NAZARETH - a smal...
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...
2:23 through (a-19) _ Dia_ . see ch. 1.22; Jeremiah 31:15 . that (c-11) 'That that might be,' ch. 1.22; 'so that that should be,' as here; and, 'then was fulfilled,' ver. 17, are never confounded in...
NAZARETH] or Nazara, was a town of lower Galilee, in the tribe of Zebulon. It lay in a lofty valley among the limestone hills to the N. of the plain of Esdraelon, or Megiddo. It was quite unimportant...
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...
HE SHALL BE CALLED A NAZARENE. — For an account of Nazareth, see Note on Luke 1:26. Here it will be enough to deal with St. Matthew’s reference to the name as in itself the fulfilment of a prophetic t...
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...
κατῳκησεν. κατοικεῖν in Sept [11] is used regularly for יָשַׁב in the sense of to dwell, and with ἐν in Luke and Acts (Luke 13:4; Acts 1:20, etc.) in the same sense. Here with εἰς it seems to mean goi...
“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...
He shall be called a Nazarite, or a Nazarene. [5] Jesus was called a Nazarite, from the place where he was bred up in Galilee; and the Christians by the Jews were sometimes called Nazarenes, from Jes...
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...
23._He shall be called a Nazarene _Matthew does not derive _Nazarene _from _Nazareth, _as if this were its strict and proper etymology, but only makes an allusion. The word נזיר, or _Nazarite, _signif...
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...
AND HE CAME AND DWELT IN A CITY CALLED NAZARETH,.... Which was a city of Galilee, and where Joseph and Mary had both dwelt before, Luke 1:26 here they came and fixed their habitation, THAT IT MIGHT B...
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. Ver. 23. _And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth_...
_He dwelt in a city called Nazareth_ Where he had formerly resided before he went to Bethlehem. Nazareth, as appears from Luke 4:29, was built upon a rock, not far from mount Tabor. The country about...
NAZARETH; a place very much despised. NAZARENE; one exceedingly despised, as the prophets foretold that Jesus Christ would be. Isaiah 53:2-3. The fulfilment of prophecy in the person of Christ proves...
B. NOTWITHSTANDING, BEING WARNED OF GOD IN A DREAM, HE TURNED ASIDE INTO THE PARTS OF GALILEE: and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the proph...
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...
OLBHeb; It appeareth by LUKE 2:4, that Joseph dwelt in Nazareth before our Saviour was born; and, LUKE 2:39, after Mary's purification it is said, _they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazare...
Matthew 2:23 And G2532 came G2064 (G5631) dwelt G2730 (G5656) in G1519 city G4172 called G3004 ...
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...
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...
‘That it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, that he should be called a Nazarene.' To be ‘called a Nazarene' was to be looked down on as backward and insignificant, for Nazareth...
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 2:23. It does not follow that Matthew was not aware of the previous residence of Joseph in Nazareth. There is no contradiction between his statements and those of Luke. Each mentions those fac...
SHOULD BE CALLED A NAZARENE (Ναζωραιος κληθησετα). Matthew says "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets" (δια των προφητων). It is the plural and no single prophecy exists which...
HE SHALL BE CALLED Probably referring to (Isaiah 11:1) where Christ is spoken of as "a 'netzer' (or, 'rod') out of the stem of Jesse....
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...
NAZARETH. Matthew does not mention their previous residence at Nazareth, but mentions it now as the home of Jesus. It was an obscure village, nestled on the hills about five hundred feet above the pla...
NAZARETH A city called Nazareth. Matthew 2:23. When you try to realize that Jesus Christ once really lived on this earth, you feel that you would like to know how He lived and what His home was lik...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 2:23 NAZARETH is halfway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sea of Galilee. It was a relatively small village. Joseph and Mary had come from Nazareth (see Lu
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 1:11; Acts 2:22; Acts 24:5; Amos 2:10; Isaiah 53:1;...
The prophets. Note the plural, as indicating not any one prediction in particular, but a summary of the import of several prophetic statements, such as Psalms 22:6; Psalms 22:8; Psalms 69:11;...
He came and dwelt in Nazareth — (where he had dwelt before he went to Bethlehem) a place contemptible to a proverb. So that hereby was fulfilled what has been spoken in effect by several of the prophe...
Didn’t Matthew make a mistake by claiming a prophecy that is not found in the OT? PROBLEM: Matthew claims that Jesus moved to Nazareth to live, in order “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken b...
A threefold interpretation is given of these words, HE SHALL BE CALLED. NAZARENE. Some read the words, 1. HE SHALL BE CALLED. NAZARITE. The Nazarites were. religious and separate rank of persons amon...