οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ. The great Rabbi Hillel had recommended women to attend the Passover. It was not enjoined by the Law, but the Jews admired it as a pious practice. (Mechilta, f. 17. 2 in Schöttgen.) Doubtless one of the reasons why Marcion exscinded these Chapter s in his mutilated St Luke was the respect shewn for Levitic ordinances in Luke 1:6; Luke 2:22-24, &c.

τῇ ἑορτῇ τοῦ πάσχα. At the feast (Luth. auf das Osterfest). This is the dative of time. Comp. Luke 8:29; Luke 12:20; Luke 13:14-16. St Luke sometimes inserts the preposition, Luke 1:26; Luke 3:1. Winer, p. 273 sq. Exodus 23:15-17; Deuteronomy 16:1-16. The custom of going up three times a year seems long to have fallen into abeyance with most Jews. 1 Samuel 1:21, “the yearly sacrifice.”

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