Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 2:17
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken (l) by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
(l) For God speaketh by the mouth of the prophets.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken (l) by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
(l) For God speaketh by the mouth of the prophets.
THEN WAS FULFILLED - The word “fulfilled,” here. is used evidently in the sense that the words in Jeremiah aptly express the event which Matthew was recording. Compare the notes at Matthew 1:22. THAT...
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...
THEN WAS FULFILLED THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY JEREMY THE PROPHET. The saying is found in Jeremiah 31:15, and was first spoken with reference to the desolation of Israel by Nebuchadnezzar. The survivors...
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
The Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, and he sent and slew all the children in Bethlehem, and in all the districts near by. He slew every child of two years and under, reckoning from...
SPOKEN. As well as written. BY. by means of. Greek. _hupo_ (App-104.), but all the critical texts read _dia._ JEREMY. Jeremiah. Quoted from Jeremiah 31:15. See App-107....
_Then was fulfilled_ This turn of expression may be regarded as identical with the more usual "that it might be fulfilled." _by_ See note Matthew 2:5....
ΔΙᾺ for ὑπό, the reading of all the more ancient authorities. The prophet is regarded as the instrument, not the agent. 17. ΤΌΤΕ ἘΠΛΗΡΏΘΗ. This turn of expression may be regarded as identical with th...
VER 17. THEN WAS FULFILLED THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY JEREMY THE PROPHET, SAYING, 18. IN RAMA WAS THERE A VOICE HEARD, LAMENTATION, AND WEEPING, AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN, AND...
_THE MURDER OF THE INFANTS IN BETHLEHEM MATTHEW 2:16-18:_ The wicked act of King Herod in killing all these babies must have broken the hearts of many families. From this sad section of scripture we o...
ΈΠΛΗΡΏΘΗ _aor. ind. pass._, _см._ Matthew 2:15. ΡΗΘΈΝ _aor. pass. part., см._ Matthew 2:15. ΔΙΆ (G1223) с _gen._ выражает посредство: "через" ΛΈΓΟΝΤΟΣ (G3004) praes. part. gen. sing. от
THEN WAS FULFILLED, &C.— _Then,_ &c.—_a cry heard, lamentation, and weeping, and bitter complaint._ See, for an explanation of this text, the notes on Jeremiah 31:15. Dr. Doddridge understands this al...
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...
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, THEN WAS FULFILLED THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY JEREMY THE PROPHET, SAYING ( - from which the quotation differs but verbally)....
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2:17 through (a-8) _ Dia_ . see ch. 1.22; Jeremiah 31:15 . that (c-11) 'That that might be,' ch. 1.22; 'so that that should be,' as here; and, 'then was fulfilled,' ver. 17, are never confounded in t...
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...
MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS (peculiar to St. Matthew). The incident is fully in accordance with what is known of Herod's character, and could not have been suggested by the prophecy in Matthew 2:18, whi...
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...
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...
_The massacre_. Τότε : ominous _then_. When he was certain that the Magi were not going to come back to report what they had found at Bethlehem, Herod was enraged as one who had been befooled (ἐνεπαίχ...
_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...
“OUT OF EGYPT DID I CALL MY SON” Matthew 2:16-23 The death of those little children was very pathetic. From the first it seemed as though our Lord's advent would bring not peace, but the sword. Their...
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...
SLAUGHTER OF THE INFANTS 16-18. Herod's cruelty was simply horrific, killing his wife and three sons Antipater, only five days before he died; all the Maccabean family; and all others who were even su...
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. Here is opened the mystery of iniquity...
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...
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...
Ver. 17, 18. THEN WAS FULFILLED THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN,.... By the slaughter of the infants at Bethlehem was literally accomplished what had been predicted by JEREMY THE PROPHET, in Jeremiah 31:15. I...
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, Ver. 17. _Then was fulfilled that which was spoken_] Fulfilling of prophecies is a convincing argument of the divinity of the S...
_Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy_ The words of Jeremiah here referred to (Jeremiah 31:15, where see the notes) were primarily meant of the Jews carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar, Ra...
FULFILLED; the scene in Judea was like that depicted by the prophet, Jeremiah 31:15, so that his words most fitly describe it....
THEN WAS FULFILLED THAT WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY JEREMY THE PROPHET, SAYING,...
Here again there is the fulfillment, not of a literal, but of a typical prophecy:...
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 2:18"....
Matthew 2:17 Then G5119 fulfilled G4137 (G5681) what G3588 spoken G4483 (G5685) by G5259 Jeremiah G2408 prophet...
‘Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,' Again this suffering was seen as adding to the ‘filling full' of the warnings that Scripture had given. For Scripture r...
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...
Matthew 2:17. JEREMIAH THE PROPHET (Jeremiah 32:15). Free quotation (from the Septuagint) of a typical prophecy. Not: ‘that it might be fulfilled,' but simply: ‘was fulfilled.'...
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 2:1. _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...
WHAT THE PROPHET JEREMIAH HAD SAID. (Jeremiah 31:15) This was first spoken about the conquest of Israel by Nebuchadnezzar. The survivors of that were gathered at Ramah as captives. Mothers there wept...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 2:17 Jeremiah described the mothers of Israel (RACHEL) mourning for their CHILDREN who had been carried off into exile ...
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...
Then was fulfilled — A passage of Scripture, whether prophetic, historical, or poetical, is in the language of the New Testament fulfilled, when an event happens to which it may with great propriety b...
Observe here, The loud and bitter cry which the mothers of Bethlehem make for the death of their innocent children which were barbarously slain by the sword if Herod; here was lamentation, weeping, an...