Till she had brought forth her first-born son. — The word “firstborn” is not found in the best MSS. The questions which meet us here, unprofitable as they are, cannot be altogether passed over. What bearing have these words on the widespread belief of Christendom in the perpetual maidenhood of Mary? On what grounds does that belief itself rest?
MATTHEW 1:25 ui`o,n {A} The Textus Receptus, following C D* K W D P most minuscules _al,_ inserts to,n before ui`o,n and adds auvth/j to.n prwto,tokon (“_her firstborn_ son”) from...
Verse Matthew 1:25. _HER FIRST-BORN SON_] Τον υιον αυτης τον πρω-οτοκον. Literally, _That son of hers, the first-born one_. That Mary might have had _other_ children, any person may reasonably and pi...
KNEW HER NOT - The doctrine of the virginity of Mary before the birth of Jesus is a doctrine of the Scriptures, and is very important to be believed. But the Bible does not affirm that she had no chil...
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...
KNEW HER. Heb, idiom, and Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for cohabitation. Note the imperfect tense. was not knowing. See App-132. TILL. Mat 12:46-60. Matthew 13:55; Matthew 13:56, clearly s...
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)...
_knew her not till_ This expression cannot be considered as in any way decisive of the question, whether the Virgin Mary had or had not children besides our blessed Lord. _her firstborn son_ The olde...
ΥἹῸΝ (א B) for τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς τὸν πρωτότοκον. The reading of the receptus is probably due to Luke 2:7, where πρωτότοκον is unchallenged. The insertion may have been made for controversial reasons, as...
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, ...
24.THEN JOSEPH BEING RAISED FROM SLEEP DID AS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD HAD BIDDEN HIM, AND TOOK UNTO HIM HIS WIFE: 25. AND KNEW HER NOT TILL SHE HAD BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRST-BORN SON: AND HE CALLED HIS NA...
_HIS NAME WAS CALLED JESUS MATTHEW 1:22-25:_ The conception of Jesus took place in an extraordinary manner. While Mary was a virgin, still untouched by any man, she conceived a child by the Holy Ghost...
ΈΓΊΝΩΣΚΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать (употребляется в сексуальном смысле, сходно с_евр._ словом ידע, "познавать"). _Impf._ указывает продолженное или неисполненное действие в прошлом....
AND KNEW HER NOT TILL, &C.— Some may infer from this passage, that Mary had other children afterwards; but the original here only excludes the time preceding the birth, without any consequence as to t...
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...
And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. AND KNEW HER NOT UNTIL SHE HAD BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRST-BORN SON. [ ton (G3588) proototokon (G4416). Lach...
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...
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...
AND KNEW HER NOT TILL] Some have thought that the evangelist means to imply that after the birth of Jesus, Joseph and Mary lived together as man and wife, and that children were born to them. This may...
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...
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,...
καὶ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν … υἱόν : absolute habitual (note the imperfect) abstinence from marital intercourse, the sole purpose of the hastened marriage being to legitimise the child. ἕως : not till then, and...
_Joseph hesitates no more_ : immediate energetic action takes the place of painful doubt. Euthymius asks: Why did he so easily trust the dream in so great a matter? and answers: because the angel reve...
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...
And knew her not (l) till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. (l) The word "till", in the Hebrew language, gives us to understand that a thing will not come to pass...
See note on ver. 18. --- St. Jerome assures us, that St. Joseph always preserved his virginal chastity. It is "of faith" that nothing contrary thereto ever took place with his chaste spouse, the bless...
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 knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. There is a great sweetness and modesty in the original word, for knowing her not. And the chastity of scrip...
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...
25._And knew her not _This passage afforded the pretext for great disturbances, which were introduced into the Church, at a former period, by Helvidius. The inference he drew from it was, that Mary re...
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...
"AND KNEW HER NOT",.... Or "but he knew her not", και answering to the Hebrew ו that is, had carnal knowledge of her, or copulation with her, though his wife. The words are an euphemism, or a modest w...
And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. Ver. 25. _And knew her not till she brought forth_] We think hardly of him that taketh to wife the widow a...
_Joseph did as the angel had bidden him_ This sudden change of his resolution, shows his great faith and ready obedience to God. When God speaks to our hearts, we speedily and cheerfully do what befor...
The result of the angelic vision:...
AND KNEW HER NOT TILL SHE HAD BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRST-BORN SON: AND HE CALLED HIS NAME JESUS. Joseph did not enter into the natural relations of marriage with Mary until her son, the promised Messiah,...
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...
Ver. 24,25. The will of God (as we heard) was revealed to Joseph in a dream. It is God that giveth a power to sleep, and a power to awake; therefore it is said, _being raised from sleep, _ he showed b...
Matthew 1:25 and G2532 not G3756 know G1097 (G5707) her G846 till G2193 G3739 forth G5088 ...
‘And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took to himself his wife, and knew her not until she had brought forth a son, and he called his name JESUS.' Note...
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 1:25. KNEW HER NOT. A Hebrew form for conjugal cohabitation; comp. Luke 1:36. A SON. The words answering to ‘her ‘and ‘first-born ‘are omitted by some of the best authorities. They may, howev...
AND KNEW HER NOT (κα ουκ εγινωσκεν αυτην). Note the imperfect tense, continuous or linear action. Joseph lived in continence with Mary till the birth of Jesus. Matthew does not say that Mary bore no...
JESUS The Greek form of the Hebrew, "Jehoshua", meaning "saviour"....
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...
NO SEXUAL RELATIONS. The language here does not imply any perpetual virginity. Jesus grew up in a normal home (Matthew 13:54-55)....
_Child._ I. We remember that God came to us in that child. “God with us.” This should remove all dread of God. II. That God can come to us in -the smallest things. III. That the whole of life is sa...
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...
Exodus 13:2; Exodus 22:29; Luke 2:21; Luke 2:7; Romans 8:29...
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...
He knew her not, till after she had brought forth — It cannot be inferred from hence, that he knew her afterward: no more than it can be inferred from that expression, 2 Samuel 6:23, Michal had no chi...
It is piously believed, though not positively in scripture asserted,that the Virgin had no other child but our Savior: it is. very probable opinion, though not an infallible article of faith, as the C...