found. discovered, after search, or in succession. Greek. aneurisko. Occ, only here and in Acts 21:4.
Mary, and Joseph, and the Babe. Each has the Art. with conj. emphasizing the several parties referred to.
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 ...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS. Lk. only. In obedi ence to a decree of the Emperor Augustus, ordering a general census (the first, during the Syrian governor ship of Quirinius), every man went to his own city. Th...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
In this country there were shepherds who were in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them and they we...
_found_ The word is not merely εὗρον but ἀνεῦρον, _discovered_after search. The lamp hung from the centre of a rope would guide them to the khan, but among a crowd it would not be easy to find the new...
The Angels to the Shepherds 8. _in the same country_ Tradition says that they were natives of the little village Beth-zur (Joshua 15:58; Nehemiah 3:16). They were feeding their flocks in the same fie...
ἈΝΕΥ͂ΡΑΝ ‘discovered after search.’ These forms of the 2nd aorist in αν are due to false analogy. They have been restored by modern editors from the best MSS., but it is perhaps impossible to decide h...
THE ANGELS TO THE SHEPHERDS...
Ver 15. And it came pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even to Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lo...
ΉΛΘΑΝ _aor. ind. act. 3 pers. pl. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) идти, ΣΠΕΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΣΠΕΎΔΩ (G4692) спешить, _part._ образа действия. "Они пришли в спешке" ΆΝΕΫ́ΡΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΝΕΥΡ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Portents (Luke 2:1-21) In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all 2 the world should be enrolled. 2This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was go...
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE (SEE THE NOTES AT LUKE 1:39 ; MATTHEW 28:8 ), AND FOUND MARY - `mysteriously guided,'...
We have here a most notable example of God's overruling providence. Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth, and Christ must be born in Bethlehem. How is this to be brought about ? Little did Cresar dream t...
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...
ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE SHEPHERDS, WHO VISIT THE HOLY FAMILY. As Jesus was born in a stable, so His birth was first announced to peasants, in token that the gospel was meant for the poor and ignorant, as...
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...
THEY CAME WITH HASTE. — The scene has naturally been a favourite subject of Christian art, and the adoration of the shepherds is, perhaps, implied, though not stated, in the narrative. The conventiona...
CHAPTER 5 THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. Luke 2:8 THE Gospel of St. Mark omits entirely the Nativity, passing at once to the words and miracles of His public ministry. St. John, too, dismisses the...
_The shepherds go to Bethlehem_. διέλθωμεν δή, come! let us go. The force of δή, a highly emotional particle (the second time we have met with it, _vide_ at Matthew 13:23), can hardly be expressed in...
σπεύσαντες, hasting; movement answering to mood revealed by δή. τήν τε Μαριὰμ, etc., mother, father, child, recognised in this order, all united together in one group by τε. The position of the babe,...
WELCOMED; NAMED; PRESENTED Luke 2:15-24 From April till the autumn the flocks pastured at night in the open fields, from which it seems probable that our Lord must have been born earlier or later tha...
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...
THE SHEPHERDS 8-20. _“The shepherds were at that time tenting out, and keeping watch over their flock through the night.”_ This fact refutes the popular idea of the birth of our Savior taking place in...
FIFTH NARRATIVE: THE BIRTH OF THE SAVIOUR, LUKE 2:1-20. Henceforth there exists in the midst of corrupt humanity a pure Being, on whom God's regard can rest with unmingled satisfaction. Uniting in thi...
3. _The visit of the shepherds: Luke 2:15-20_. The angel had notified a sign to the shepherds, and invited them to ascertain its reality. This injunction they obey. VERS. 15-20. The T. R. exhibits in...
(15) And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the...
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...
_THE HOLY FAMILY_ ‘They came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.’ Luke 2:16 We will look for a moment at each particular figure, and gather the central lesson wh...
16._And found Mary _This was a revolting sight, and was sufficient of itself to produce an aversion to Christ. For what could be more improbable than to believe that he was the King of the whole peopl...
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...
AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE,.... In the night, leaving their flocks, to see their incarnate Lord, as Zacchaeus hastened down from the tree to receive the Saviour. The wonderfulness of the vision, the imp...
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. Ver. 16. _Found Mary and Joseph, &c._] They, though of the royal blood, yet lay obscured, not thrusting themselve...
_As the angels were gone away_ Probably they saw them ascend; _the shepherds said, Let us now go;_ without delay; _and see this thing_ This wonderful and important event; _which is come to pass: and t...
AND THEY CAME WITH HASTE, AND FOUND MARY, AND JOSEPH, AND THE BABE LYING IN A MANGER....
The visit and adoration of the shepherds:...
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 ...
8-20 Angels were heralds of the new-born Saviour, but they were only sent to some poor, humble, pious, industrious shepherds, who were in the business of their calling, keeping watch over their flock...
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‘And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger.' So as rapidly as they could they hurried to Bethlehem, and there they ‘searched for and found' (aneurosko...
Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem (Matthew 2:1-11). This section narrates: the circumstances which led His mother from Nazareth (chap. Luke 1:26; Luke 1:56) to Bethlehem ...
Luke 2:16. FOUND, suggesting previous search. MARY AND JOSEPH Her name naturally comes first, as the mother, but especially in view of the peculiar nature of her motherhood. IN THE MANGER: the one...
WITH HASTE (σπευσαντες). Aorist active participle of simultaneous action.FOUND (ανευραν). Second aorist active indicative of a common Greek verb ανευρισκω, but only in Luke in the N.T. The compou...
Luke 2:16 The Hidden God. I. It is said in the Bible that God is a God that hideth Himself; and yet there is nothing of which we are more sure than this that if any man will heartily, and by all appo...
Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
We WILL now read the story of our Saviour's birth as it is recorded in the Gospel according to Luke. Luke 2:1. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, th...
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...
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...
SO THEY HURRIED OFF. Note how quickly they respond to the angel's message!...
_And they came with haste._ The course pursued by the shepherds is vividly typical of that which should be pursued by all Christian inquirers. 1. A process of inquiry. 2. The joy of distinct confir...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:1 Luke records the events of Jesus’ birth (vv. Luke 2:1), his presentation in the temple (vv. Luke 2:21), and his visit
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...
_And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a mange. With haste_, from their longing and zeal to see Christ. Hence S. Ambrose remarks, "Thou seest that the shepherds m...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:1. ALL THE WORLD.—_I.e._ the Roman world (_orbis terrarum_). TAXED.—Rather, “enrolled,” something like a modern census, but with a view to taxation. Luke 2:2. THIS WAS THE FIR...
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.;...
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...
Ecclesiastes 9:10; Luke 1:39; Luke 19:32; Luke 2:12; Luke 2:7;...
Found (ajneuran). Only here and Acts 21:4. Ana indicates the discovery of the facts in succession. Mary and Joseph and the babe. Each has the article, pointing to the several parties already referre...
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...
THE INFANT CHRIST A CHRISTMAS SERMON Luke 2:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In a manger, on the hay, There, incarnate God, once lay: From the Father's throne He came To a world all sunk in shame; Came a B...
THE SEARCH OF THE SHEPHERDS Luke 2:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Christmas story from any angle is most interesting. We are to study, "The Search of the Shepherds." The study is well named, for the dut...