An angel. Joseph was puzzled. God sent his angel with a message. (Compare Luke 1:26). In a dream. A common thing. Three times he was spoken to in this way. Descendant of David. Reminded of the word of prophecy. Do not be afraid. The baby was holy.
Verse Matthew 1:20. _THAT WHICH IS CONCEIVED_ (or formed) _IN HER_] So I think γεννηθεν should be translated in this place: as it appears that the human nature of Jesus Christ was a _real creation_ i...
HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS - He did not act hastily. He did not take the course which the law would have permitted him to do, if he had been hasty, violent, or unjust. It was a case deeply affecting h...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The King and the Offer of the Kingdom. Chapter s 1-12. 1. Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham. (Matthew 1:1 .) 2. From Abraham to David. (Matthew 1:2 .) 3....
THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH. In Mt., Joseph has the principal rô le; in Lk., Mary. Six inspired dreams are narrated in Mt., three of them with the angel of Yahweh. Five are in chs. 1 and 2, the sixth in...
THE LINEAGE OF THE KING (Matthew 1:1-17)...
The birth of Jesus Christ happened in this way. Mary, His mother, was betrothed to Joseph, and, before they became man and wife, it was discovered that she was carrying a child in her womb through the...
HE THOUGHT: i.e. pondered about or contemplated this step. This was Satan's assault, as he had assaulted Abraham before (Genesis 12:11). See App-23. THESE THINGS. The two courses open to him in Matth...
The Birth of Jesus Christ. Luke 1:26-56; Luke 2:4-7 St Mark and St John give no account of the birth of Jesus, St Luke narrates several particulars not recorded by Matthew, (1) the annunciation, (2)...
ἸΔΟΎ. Used like the Hebr. _hinneh_ as a particle of transition. See note ch. Matthew 2:7. ΚΑΤʼ ὌΝΑΡ for classical ὄναρ. ΠΑΡΑΛΑΒΕΙ͂Ν, the technical word for receiving a bride from her parents: καὶ τί...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST Luke 1:26-56; Luke 2:4-7 St Mark and St John give no account of the birth of Jesus, St Luke narrates several particulars not recorded by St Matthew, (1) the annunciation, ...
20.BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A DREAM, SAYING, JOSEPH, THOU SON OF DAVID, FEAR NOT TO TAKE UNTO THEE MARY THY WIFE: FOR THAT WHICH IS CONC...
_THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH MATTHEW 1:18-21:_ "But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we mi...
ΈΝΘΥΜΗ, ΘΈΝΤΟΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. gen. masc. sing. от_ ΈΝΘΥΜΈΟΜΑΙ (G1760) размышлять, обдумывать. _Gen. abs._ "После того как он" указывает на время видения, а гл. — на психологическое состояние...
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD— Probably Gabriel, who had been sent to Zecharias and Mary. That Joseph's scruple did not proceed, as some of the fathers suppose, merely from veneration, appears from the reason...
SECTION 2. THE ANNUNCIATION TO JOSEPH TEXT: 1:18-25 18. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph. before they came together, she was found wit...
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is concei...
1 David 1 Ozias 2 Solomon 2 Joatham 3 Roboam 3 Achaz 4 Abijah 4 Hezekiah 5 Asaph 5 Manasseh 6 Josaphat 6 Amos 7 Joram 7 Josiah [Ahaziah] [Jehoahaz] [Jehoash] [Jehoiakim] [Amaziah] [Jechon...
1:20 Lord (d-13) 'Lord' without the article, signifying, as often, 'Jehovah.'...
GENEALOGY AND BIRTH OF JESUS 1-17. Genealogy of Jesus: cp. Luke 3:23. The two genealogies of Jesus, which are constructed on quite different principles, require careful comparison and study, if their...
THE ANGEL] RV 'an angel.' In St. Luke the angel who appears to Zachariah and Mary is named (Luke 1:19; Luke 1:26), and the same angel (Gabriel) is to be understood here. In other passages of the NT. a...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ ABOUT MATTHEW The author was a *Jewish Christian who wrote especially for *Jews. One early Christian writer said, ‘Matthew collected what Jes...
WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS. — The words imply a conflict, a perplexity; and the words of the angel came as the solution of his doubts. IN A DREAM. — From the Jewish point of view, dreams were t...
CHAPTER 1 The Coming of the Christ - Matthew 1:1 THE New Testament opens appropriately with the four Gospels; for, though in their present form they are all later in date than some of the Epistles,...
_Joseph delivered from his perplexity by angelic interposition_. How much painful, distressing, distracting thought he had about the matter day and night can be imagined. Relief came at last in a drea...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS. This section gives the explanation which ἐξ ἧς ἐγεννήθη (Matthew 1:16) leads us to expect. It may be called _the justification of the genealogy_ (Schanz), showing that while the bi...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST Matthew 1:18-25 The fear that Joseph, being a just man, might withdraw from their contemplated wedlock, would have filled Mary's heart with untold anguish had she not been...
The Gospel of Matthew portrays Jesus as King. It reveals Him as realizing in His Person, and enunciating in His teaching the great principles which had been the peculiar deposit and glory of the ancie...
but while he pondered on these things, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to (f) take to [thee] Mary, thy (g) wife, for that which is (h)...
Fear not to take, &c. i.e., fear not to marry her, if we suppose them not yet married, or if married already, the sense is, fear not to keep and remain with thy chaste wife; lay aside all thoughts of...
AN ANGEL APPEARS TO JOSEPH Matthew 1:18-25. We find that Gabriel spoke to Mary when she was wide awake, in broad daylight; but in the case of Joseph, he appears to him in a dream, while asleep; as Mar...
GENEALOGIES Matthew 1 and Luke 3. There is but one fact of vital importance in all of these genealogies, and that is the transmission to all generations, an infallible history of our Lord's progenitor...
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. It is very probable that this was the same angel which announced to Mary the first ti...
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...
_TWO GREAT TRUTHS_ ‘Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise … He called His Name Jesus.’ Matthew 1:18 The verses (18 to 25) begin by telling us two great truths. They tell us how the Lord Je...
20._And while he was considering these things _We see here how seasonably, and, as we would say, at the very point, the Lord usually aids his people. Hence too we infer that, when he appears not to ob...
The object of the Spirit of God, in this Gospel, being to present Jehovah as fulfilling the promises made to Israel, and the prophecies that relate to the Messiah (and no one can fail to be struck wit...
BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS,.... While he was revolving them in his mind, considering what was most fit and proper to be done, whether to dismiss her publicly or privately; while he was consu...
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceiv...
_But while he thought on these things_ While he was revolving them in his mind, in the night season, ignorant as he then was of the divine conception in Mary; while he was inclined to divorce her in t...
SON; descendant of David. Kindness, conscientiousness, and a disposition to do right, with a calm, attentive consideration of the whole subject, in a case of difficulty, are a good preparation for lea...
It was here that God interfered in behalf of the mother of His Son, according to His humanity: BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A DREAM, SAYING:...
The genealogy of the King of Israel must be clearly established as from Abraham, the original father of the nation, and from David, the first king of God's choice, who is in many ways a type of Christ...
18-25 Let us look to the circumstances under which the Son of God entered into this lower world, till we learn to despise the vain honours of this world, when compared with piety and holiness. The my...
What we have in this verse assures us, that Joseph was not only inclined, by the kindness and benignity of his own natural temper, and by his charity, to that moderate resolution he had taken up, but...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Then again Matthew, when speaking of the angel, says, "The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in sleep."[70] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV For she shall bri...
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‘But when he thought on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, you son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conc...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS THE CHRIST (1:18-25). Jesus the Messiah having been introduced as a fulfilment of history from Abraham onwards, the narrative now commences with His birth. Given what a remarkable e...
SECTION 2. THE BIRTH AND RISE OF JESUS THE MESSIAH (THE CHRIST) (1:18-4:25). In this section, following the introduction, Matthew reveals the greatness of Jesus the Christ. He will now describe the un...
The circumstances preceding the Nativity; Mary, doubted by her betrothed husband; his design of putting her away privately; her vindication by means of a dream; Joseph's faith; the name in accordance...
Matthew 1:20. BUT WHILE HE THOUGHT ON THESE THINGS. As ‘a just man,' he was pained and grieved, yet not having entirely lost confidence in her, he thought the matter over; then came the deliverance fr...
AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM IN A DREAM (αγγελος κυριου κατ' οναρ εφανη αυτω). This expression (αγγελος κυριου) is without the article in the New Testament except when, as in Matthew 1:24,...
CONTENTS: Generations of Jesus Christ. His conception and birth. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Joseph, Mary, generations of Christ from Abraham to David. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ was, in acc...
Matthew 1:1. _The book of the generation,_ or rather the genealogy, _of Jesus Christ._ This is the Hebraical mode of writing. Moses says, Genesis 5:1, This is the book of the generations of Adam. Jesu...
_A just man._ AN HONEST MAN’S DILEMMA I. That troubles are irrespective of character. II. That the mental perplexities of the good arise often from the want of insight into the divine movements. Th...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 1:1 The Arrival of Jesus the Messiah. Matthew’s introduction echoes Genesis 1:1. The word in...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 1:20 The ANGEL OF THE LORD is Gabriel (see Luke 1:26)....
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 1:18. ESPOUSED = betrothed.—Among the Jews the betrothal took place a year before marriage, and during the interval the betrothed maiden remained with her own family. But fro...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 1:1 JESUS THE CHRIST BY HUMAN ANCESTRY, (Parallel passage: Luke 3:23.)...
Let's get into the Gospel According To Matthew. Matthew was a tax collector in Capernaum before he was called by Jesus Christ to be a disciple. He was also called Levi. And he opens his gospel by givi...
1 Kings 17:13; Genesis 31:11; Genesis 46:3; Isaiah 26:3; Isaiah 30:21
THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Matthew 1:16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We here present one of the great omissions of the Bible, which constitutes one of the great proofs that Christ was virgin born. The earlier ve...
Two things here are observable; namely, the care that Almighty God takes; 1. For Joseph's satisfaction. 2. For vindicating the virgin's reputation. For Joseph's satisfaction, an angel is dispatched t...