Luke 2:22

αὐτῶν. אAB and most editors. It is probably by a mere error that D reads αὐτοῦ.

22. τοῖ καθαρισμοῦ αὐτῶν, ‘their purification.’ The reading αὐτῆς, ‘her,’ of the Received Text is almost unsupported. All the Uncials read αὐτῶν, ‘their,’ except D, which probably by an oversight read αὐτοῦ, ‘His.’ Strictly speaking, the child was never purified, but only the mother (Leviticus 12:1-8). The purification took place on the fortieth day after the Nativity, and till then a mother was not permitted to leave her house. The feast of the Presentation was known in the Eastern Church as the Ὑπαπαντή.

κατὰ τὸν νόμον Μωϋσέως. See this Law in Leviticus 12:2-4. Jesus was “made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem those that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons,” Galatians 4:4-5.

ἀνήγαγον. The road from Bethlehem to Jerusalem is a descent, but ἀνάγειν is naturally used of the Capital, and especially of the Temple which is on a hill (often called by the Rabbis “the hill of the House”).