But others, either honestly perplexed, or hostile to Christ, and glad to find Scripture on their side, objected, μὴ γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ὁ Χριστὸς ἔρχεται; “But does the Christ come out of Galilee?” [Hoogeveen explains the γάρ by resolving the sentence into a double statement: “Others said this is not the Christ: for Christ will not come out of Galilee”. The γάρ assigns the reason for the denial already hinted in the ἄλλοι δὲ introducing a contrary opinion to that already expressed.] They knew that Jesus was a Galilean, and this clashed with their idea that the Christ was to be born of the seed of David and in Bethlehem; an idea founded on Micah 5:2; Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5. Bethlehem is here called the κώμη ὅπου ἦν Δαβίδ [or Δαυείδ, which gives the same pronunciation], because there David spent his youth; 1Sa 16:1; 1 Samuel 16:4, etc.

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