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Verse Luke 2:52. _JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM_] Luke 2:40.
THE following remarks, taken chiefly from Mr. _Claude_, on the
foregoing subject, are well worth the reader's attention.
I. The birth of Chri...
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IN FAVOUR WITH GOD - That is, in proportion to his advance in wisdom.
This does not imply that he ever lacked the favor of God, but that God
regarded him with favor in proportion as he showed an under...
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CHAPTER 2
_ 1. The Birth of Christ at Bethlehem (Luke 2:1)_
2. The Glad Tidings Announced to the Shepherds. (Luke 2:8)
3. The Circumcision and Presentation (Luke 2:21)
4. Simeon and His Prophecy ...
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AN INCIDENT IN JESUS-' BOYHOOD. The lad grows in body and mind and is
blessed by God. When He is twelve years old He accompanies His parents
to the Passover at Jerusalem, and when the week's Feast is...
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Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the
Passover. When he was twelve years of age, they went up according to
the custom of the feast, and when they had completed the days o...
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JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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INCREASED. advanced, in wisdom. See App-117.
STATURE. maturity in all respects.
WITH. from beside. Greek. _para._ App-104.
MAN. men. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123....
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_increased_ Rather, ADVANCED. The word is derived from pioneers
_cutting down_trees in the path of an advancing army. Comp. 1 Samuel
2:26, and the description of an ideal youth in Proverbs 3:3-4.
_sta...
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The Passover Visit to the Temple
41. _his parents_ 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. ...
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ΠΡΟΈΚΟΠΤΕΝ, ‘advanced.’ (Galatians 1:14; 2 Timothy 2:16,
&c.) The word is derived from pioneers _cutting down_ trees in the
path of an advancing army. Comp. 1 Samuel 2:26, and the description of
an id...
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THE PASSOVER VISIT TO THE TEMPLE...
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VER 51. AND HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM, AND CAME TO NAZARETH, AND WAS
SUBJECT TO THEM: BUT HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE SAYINGS IN HER HEART.
52. AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH...
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ΠΡΟΈΚΟΠΤΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΚΌΠΤΩ (G4298)
достигать,
ΗΛΙΚΊΑ (G2244) _dat. sing._ рост, высота,
возможно, возраст (Fitzmyer, 446; MM). _Dat._ relat.;
указывает, на что распространялся
рост....
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AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE— The word signifies either
_age_ or _stature;_ but the latter seems evidently to be here meant.
Erasmus remarks, (nearlyin these words) that all the endowment...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Puzzles (Luke 2:39-52)
39 And when they had performed everything according to the law of the
Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. 40And
the chi...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Scripture_
Luke 2:41-52 And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast
of the passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up
after the custom of the feas...
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And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and
man.
AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE. So our translators have
rendered the word [ heelikia (G2244)], with Beza, Groti...
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48 Though Herod was dead and Archelaus had been banished by this time,
the absence of their
Son no doubt revived the dread, inspired by the massacre of the babes
of Bethlehem, which caused them to dw...
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BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS
1-5. The census of Quirinius. There are two historical difficulties in
connexion with St. Luke's mention of the census of Quirinius: (1)
There is no direct evidence, exce...
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THE BOY JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. We know nothing directly of the childhood
of Jesus except this one incident, which is recorded entirely for the
sake of the remarkable utterance in Luke 2:49.
41. As wome...
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See on Luke 2:40....
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 2
THE BIRTH OF JESUS 2:1-7
V1 At that time *Caesar Augustus ordered a *census in the *Roman
*empire. V2 This was the first *census when Quirinius gov...
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JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE. — Here again we have nothing
but a normal orderly development. With Him, as with others, wisdom
widened with the years, and came into His human soul through the...
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προέκοπτε, steadily grew, used intransitively in later Greek.
ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ και ἡλικίᾳ, in wisdom and (also
_as_, the one the measure of the other) in stature, both growths alike
real. Real in body, app...
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_When twelve years old_. Lk. here relates one solitary, significant
incident from the early years of Jesus, as if to say: from this, learn
all. The one story shows the wish to collect anecdotes of tho...
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THE BOY JESUS IN THE TEMPLE
Luke 2:40-52
“Solitary floweret,” says Stier, referring to this incident,
“gathered from the wonderful enclosed garden of the thirty years and
plucked precisely when the...
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Jesus was born in Bethlehem, under the yoke of an oppressor. Moreover,
by the exigency of the circumstances, He was born amid the homeless
crowd. This was according to the divine arrangement and foret...
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Not that he was wiser at any future period of his life, that he was at
the moment of his conception, but this is said, because he chose to
manifest increasing signs of wisdom as he increased in years....
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JESUS TWELVE YEARS OLD
This inspired omission of our Lord's biography the first thirty years
of His life, with the single exception of His visit to Jerusalem when
twelve years old, has been a puzzle t...
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3. _The residence at Nazareth: Luke 2:51-52_.
From this moment Jesus possesses within Him this ideal of a life
entirely devoted to the kingdom of God, which had just flashed before
His eyes. For eight...
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SEVENTH NARRATIVE: THE CHILD JESUS AT JERUSALEM, LUKE 2:41-52.
The following incident, the only one which the historian relates about
the youth of Jesus, is an instance of that wisdom which marked His...
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(51) And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject
unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. (52)
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with...
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REFLECTIONS
Reader! how little did the Roman Emperor Augustus, or his deputy
Cyrenius, conceive, that the over-ruling power of God so arranged the
taxation, that the chief object to which it should mi...
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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...
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_AT NAZARETH_
‘And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject
unto them.… And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour
with God and man.’
Luke 2:51
In this glorious l...
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_INCREASING IN WISDOM_
‘Jesus increased in wisdom.’
Luke 2:52
The Gospels do not give us, nor do they attempt to give us, a
detailed history of our Lord’s wondrous life. A few stories of the
infanc...
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In the next chapter (2) the scene changes. Instead of the relations of
God with Israel according to grace, we see first the pagan emperor of
the world the head of Daniel's last empire exercising his p...
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AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM,.... As man; for neither his divine
wisdom, nor the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in him, as mediator,
could admit of any increase; but as he grew in body, the facult...
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And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and
man.
Ver. 52. _Increased in wisdom_] Being παιδαριογερων, as
Macarius was called, while a child, for his extraordinary grace and...
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_And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature_ In the perfections of his
divine nature there could be no increase; but this is spoken of his
human nature, consisting of a reasonable soul and human flesh;...
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INCREASED IN WISDOM; this is spoken of Jesus as man. See Matthew
24:36; MARK 13:32....
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The return to Nazareth:...
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AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH GOD AND
MAN.
A period of approximately eighteen years is covered in this simple
statement of the evangelist. Although He had given His pare...
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THE BIRTH OF THE LORD JESUS
(vs.1-7)
God in His sovereign wisdom and power at this time ordered the events
of man's government to accomplish His own will. Caesar Augustus
decreed that all the world ...
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STATURE:
Or, age...
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41-52 It is for the honour of Christ that children should attend on
public worship. His parents did not return till they had stayed all
the seven days of the feast. It is well to stay to the end of a...
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If any ask how he, who was the eternal Wisdom of the Father, (who is
the only wise God), increased in wisdom, they must know that all
things in Scripture which are spoken of Christ, are not spoken wit...
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Tertullian On Modesty
I blush not at an error which I have ceased to hold, because I am
delighted at having ceased to hold it, because I recognise myself to
be better and more modest. No one blushes...
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Luke 2:52 And G2532 Jesus G2424 increased G4298 (G5707) wisdom G4678
and G2532 stature G2244 and G2532 favor...
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‘And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God
and men.'
Meanwhile Jesus continued to grow in wisdom and in physical strength,
and in favour with God and men. He did not at this sta...
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Luke 2:52. ADVANCED, not ‘increased.'
IN WISDOM AND STATURE, or, ‘age;' see Matthew 6:27. The former
sense is included, if the latter be accepted.
IN FAVOR (or, ‘grace') WITH GOD AND MEN. The favor...
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THIS section gives an example of the wisdom just spoken of (Luke
2:40), the more significant because the incident occurred at the age
(twelve years) when a Jewish boy became a ‘son of the law,' was
fi...
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ADVANCED IN WISDOM AND STATURE
(προεκοπτεν τη σοφια κα ηλικια). Imperfect
active, he kept cutting his way forward as through a forest or jungle
as pioneers did. He kept growing in stature (ηλικια ma...
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Luke 2:40 , LUKE 2:49; LUKE 2:52
(with Mark 6:3; John 4:34;...
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Luke 2:41
This passage is one of peculiar interest, as this account which it
gives is the only circumstance mentioned of our blessed Lord from His
childhood till He was thirty years of age. And while...
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CONTENTS: Birth of Jesus. His adoration by the shepherds. Adoration
and prophecy of Simon and Anna. Return to Nazareth. Jesus and His
parents at the Passover.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Caesar, Augustus, Cyr...
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Luke 2:1. _It came to pass in those days,_ when John was born, and
when the Roman emperor, Augustus Cæsar, filled the throne, and was in
the thirty first year of his reign, that, a decree was issued f...
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AND JESUS GREW. Jesus grew up in a remote province of the Roman
Empire, a province conquered by occupation troops, in a little country
village whose name was a "proverb" for futility, in poverty and m...
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_Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the
Passover_
THE LIFE OF JESUS
I. JESUS CHRIST IN HOME LIFE. “And He went down with them, and came
to Nazareth, and was subject unto th...
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_And Jesus increased in wisdom--_
A PATTERN CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
1.
He grew, not in stature only, but in wisdom and favour with God and
man. Christ, as Divine, must have had all knowledge and power...
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CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _And it came to pass in those days_ (in which John
the Baptist was born) _there went forth a decree_, &c. The Syriac for
"all the world," has "all the people of his dominion," subjec...
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Observe here how God joins and couples in Christ the humble with the
sublime, the human with the divine, the poison with the antidote, to
show that in Him human nature was joined to the Divine Majesty...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 2:40. WAXED STRONG.—The words “in spirit” are added from
Luke 1:80; omitted in R.V. FILLED WITH WISDOM.—Lit. “becoming full
of wisdom.” THE GRACE OF GOD.—The favour of God. The f...
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 2:1
_The Redeemer's birth_.
LUKE 2:1
THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD
SHOULD BE TAXED; more accurately, _that there should be a
registration_, etc.;...
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Now it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from
Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And the taxing
was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syra.) And all we...
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1 Samuel 2:26; Acts 7:10; Acts 7:9; Luke 1:80; Luke 2:40;...
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Stature [η λ ι κ ι α]. Which Rev. rightly retains. The word may
be rendered age, which would be superfluous here. :Luke 3
CHAPTER III
1 - 18. Compare Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8....
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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...
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THE CHILDHOOD OF CHRIST
Luke 2:40
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We come now into the study of a Holy Child. He was a Child different
from any other child ever born of woman. As preparatory to the study
proper...
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Jesus increased in wisdom — As to his human nature, and in favour
with God — In proportion to that increase. It plainly follows, that
though a man were pure, even as Christ was pure, still he would ha...