Flight to Egypt, massacre in Bethlehem, return to Nazareth. These three stories have one aim. They indicate the omens which appear in beginnings omina principiis inesse solent (Ovid). The fortunes of Christianity foreshadowed in the experiences of the holy child: welcomed by Gentiles, evil entreated by Jews. “The real contents of these sections embody an ideal aim” (Schanz).
Verse Matthew 2:13. _FLEE INTO EGYPT_] Many Jews had settled in Egypt; not only those who had fled thither in the time of Jeremiah, see Jeremiah 48; but many others who had settled there also, on acc...
THE ANGEL APPEARETH TO JOSEPH IN A DREAM - See Matthew 1:20. FLEE INTO EGYPT - Egypt is situated to the southwest of Judea, and is distant from Bethlehem perhaps about 60 miles. It was at this time a...
2. THE KING WORSHIPPED BY GENTILES; Jerusalem in Ignorance of Him; the Child Persecuted. 1. The Visit of the Wise Men.(Matthew 2:1 .) 2. The Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13 .) 3. The Return from Eg...
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. While Mt. says Jesus was born before Herod's death (how long before he does not say), Lk. suggests, by his reference to Quirinius, that it was...
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. -- Matthew 2:13-23. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ He delivered me because he delighted in me._ -- Psalms 18:19. TIME. --B. C. 4. PLACES. --Bethlehem of Judea; Egypt; Nazareth in Galilee. HEL...
When they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph. "Rise, he said, "and take the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; fo...
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
WERE DEPARTED. had withdrawn or retired. THE ANGEL. See note on Matthew 1:20. THE LORD. Here denotes Jehovah. See App-98. Divine interposition was needed to defeat the designs of the enemy; and guida...
The Flight into Egypt 13. _the young child_ Named first, as the most precious charge and the most exposed to danger. _Egypt_ at all times the readiest place of refuge for the Israelites, whether from...
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT...
ΤῸ ΠΑΙΔΊΟΝ. Named first as the most precious charge and the most exposed to danger. ΕἸΣ ΑἼΓΥΠΤΟΝ. Egypt was at all times the readiest place of refuge for the Israelites, whether from famine or from po...
Ver 13. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise, and take the young Child and His mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until...
_THE CHRIST IS TAKEN INTO EGYPT MATTHEW 2:13-15:_ The wise men “being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod departed into their own country another way.” (Matthew 2:12) Instead...
ΆΝΑΧΩΡΗΣΆΝΤΩΝ _aor. act. part. Gen. abs._, "когда/после того как они..." _см._ Matthew 2:12. ΙΔΟΎ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ смотреть, глянуть, _см._ Matthew 2:1. ΦΑΊΝΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.),...
INTO EGYPT— There were great numbers of Jews in Egypt: some fled thither in the time of Jeremiah; and great numbers were broughtthere afterwards, on account of the temple of Onias. We may just observe...
SECTION 4. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND RETURN TEXT: 2:13-23 13. Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his...
And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring...
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...
2:13 Lord (c-10) See Note, ch. 1.20....
THE WISE MEN 1-12. The star in the east and the visit of the Magi (peculiar to St. Matthew). The incident fits well into secular history. About the time when the star appeared (7 or 6 b.c.), Herod the...
FLIGHT INTO EGYPT (peculiar to St. Matthew). Egypt was the only place of refuge easily reached from Bethlehem. It was outside the dominions of Herod, under Roman government, and contained a population...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 WISE MEN VISIT JESUS 2:1-12 V1 Jesus was born in the town called Bethlehem. This was in Judea district. At this time, Herod was th...
THE ANGEL. — Better, _an angel._ The interval of time between the departure of the Magi and Joseph’s dream is not specified. Probably it was very short. As with the Magi, the dream may have come as an...
CHAPTER 2 His Reception - Matthew 2:1 THIS one chapter contains all that St. Matthew records of the Infancy. St. Mark and St. John tell us nothing, and St. Luke very little. This singular reticence h...
GOD RULES AND OVERRULES Matthew 2:9-15 The suggestion has been hazarded that “the star” was an unusual combination of three planets; but this would conflict with the disappearance and reappearance of...
The Kingdom was not ready for the King, so a reception for Him was not arranged and organized by those who should have been waiting for Him. They were in rebellion. The King's advent was heralded by a...
(2) And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I br...
SOJOURN IN EGYPT 13-15. Now Joseph, a true, godly man, dreams. God talks to him in the stilly hours of his nightly slumber. It is a long way for Mary to ride a donkey, and carry the Babe in her lap. F...
And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring...
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...
13._And when they had departed _How many days elapsed from the departure of the Magi, till Joseph was ordered to flee into Egypt, is not known, nor is it of much importance to inquire: only it is prob...
Thus born, thus characterised by the angel and fulfilling the prophecies that announced the presence of Emmanuel, He is formally acknowledged King of the Jews by the Gentiles, who are guided by the wi...
AND WHEN THEY WERE DEPARTED,.... That is immediately, or as soon as they were gone, or in a very little time after, probably the same night, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARETH TO JOSEPH IN A DRE...
And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring...
_And when they were departed_ Probably very soon after; for Bethlehem being only about two hours' journey from Jerusalem, no doubt Herod would have speedy intelligence of the motions of the wise men:...
Those who conscientiously follow the light which they have, will receive, in the use of proper means, all the light they need....
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND THE RETURN TO NAZARETH. One part of Herod's plan had not worked out: the Magi did not return to reveal the exact whereabouts of the Child. Now the Lord also foiled the design...
The deeply interesting account of Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of her Lord, the details as to His birth in Bethlehem, the visit of the shepherds to the manger in which H...
13-15 Egypt had been a house of bondage to Israel, and particularly cruel to the infants of Israel; yet it is to be a place of refuge to the holy Child Jesus. God, when he pleases, can make the worst...
How long it was before this apparition to Joseph the Scripture saith not, but admitting what is affirmed by some geographers, that Bethlehem Judah was but two days journey from Jerusalem, it cannot be...
Origen Against Celsus Book I and on the second, "Arise, and take the young Child, and His mother, and flee into Egypt; and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young Child t...
Matthew 2:13 Now G1161 they G846 departed G402 (G5660) behold G2400 (G5628) angel G32 Lord G2962 appeared...
‘And when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and you must remain there until I...
JESUS IS DRIVEN INTO EXILE AND FINALLY RETURNS TO LOWLY NAZARETH (2:12-23). As a result of a warning dream the Magi did not return to Herod but slipped out of the country ‘another way', while Joseph s...
CHRONOLOGY. We place the flight into Egypt a _fter_ the presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-39). The latter took place on the fortieth day, and the interval which this allows is too brief for the ev...
Matthew 2:13. The Magi may have communicated their suspicions or revelation (Matthew 2:12) to JOSEPH, to whom as the head of the family the present revelation is made, IN A DREAM, again. EGYPT, ‘as n...
Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,_ Probably from that Assyria which is joined with Is...
CONTENTS: Visit of the Magi, flight into Egypt, Herod's slaughter of the innocents. Return of Joseph and Mary to Nazareth. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Herod, chief priests, scribes, wise me...
Matthew 2:1. _Jesus was born in Bethlehem,_ as is illustrated in Micah 5:2. _In the days of Herod the king,_ the son of Antipater, and father of Archelaus, who succeeded him on the throne. Herod, who...
AFTER THEY HAD LEFT. Probably the Magi were led by the star to Bethlehem, offered their worship, then left, Joseph was warned, and the _holy family_ started for Egypt all in the same night. RUN AWAY T...
_Flee into Egypt._ THE DUTY OF PARENTS TO THEIR CHILDREN I. Childhood is exposed to imminent dangers. “Herod sought the young child’s life.” Evil is never so active or persistent as when it seeks th...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 2:13 FLEE TO EGYPT. The Egyptian border was approximately 90 miles (146 km) south of Bethlehem. There, they would be free from Herod’s power....
CHAPTER 2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Juda in the days of king Herod. It is better to read here in the Greek _in Bethlehem-Juda_. Juda means the tribe of Judah, to which, after the schism...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 2:13. EGYPT.—At all times the readiest place of refuge for the Israelites, whether from famine or from political oppression. In Alexandria the Jews numbered a fifth of the po...
EXPOSITION JESUS THE CHRIST BY HIS EARLY HISTORY answering to the word of God by the prophets. This is shown by four particulars, for each of which a corresponding prophecy is adduced. (1) The place...
Chapter Two Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king (Matthew 2:1), This is Herod the Great, that little short monster. He was a little over four feet tall, and as...
Acts 10:22; Acts 10:7; Acts 12:11; Acts 16:36; Acts 5:19;...
Observe here, 1. Our Lord's humiliation, by persecution in the very morning of his life; he was banished almost as soon as born. FLEE INTO EGYPT, FOR Herod WILL SEEK THE YOUNG CHILD TO DESTROY HIM. Un...