Mary kept all these things, and compared what was accomplished in her, concerning the Lord, with what had been written of him by the prophets. (Ven. Bede) --- She considered in her heart the arguments of faith. (St. Ambrose)
Verse Luke 2:19. _AND PONDERED_ THEM _IN HER HEART._] συμβαλλουσα, _Weighing them in her heart_. _Weighing_ is an English translation of our word _pondering_, from the Latin _ponderare_. Every circum...
MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS - All that happened, and all that was said respecting her child. She “remembered” what the angel had said to “her;” what had happened to Elizabeth and to the shepherds - all...
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...
KEPT. kept within herself. AND PONDERED. pondering; i.e. weighing them. Compare Gen 87:11....
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...
_all these things_ or -words." _pondered_ Literally, "_casting together_," i. e. comparing and considering; like our -casting in mind." Comp. Genesis 37:11, "his father _observed_the saying." She did...
ΠΆΝΤΑ ΤᾺ ῬΉΜΑΤΑ ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ ‘all these things’ or ‘words.’ ΣΥΝΕΤΉΡΕΙ. The imperfect follows the aorist as in Luke 1:64 (where see note). The verb is used in Daniel 7:28; Mark 6:20. ΣΥΝΒΆΛΛΟΥΣΑ. Literally,...
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...
ΣΥΝΕΤΉ ΡΕΙ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΤΗΡΈΩ (G4933) иметь в виду, хранить или накапливать — в памяти (BAGD). Непростые события, которые происходили, должны были запоминаться, чтобы быть правильно истолко...
BUT MARY, &C.— _But Mary observed all those sayings, perceiving their meaning in her own mind._ Elsner. Mary was greatly affected with, and thought upon the shepherd's words; the sense of which she wa...
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...
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS, AND PONDERED [OR 'REVOLVED'] THEM IN HER HEART - seeking to gather from them, in combination, what l...
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...
Mary's was a quiet and reflective nature: cp. Luke 2:51. These two vv. suggest that it was from her the information contained in these Chapter s was derived....
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...
MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS. — On the assumption that the whole narrative is traceable to the Virgin herself as its first author, these brief and simple touches as to her own feelings are of singular i...
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 of course told what they had seen in Bethlehem, and how they had been led to go there, and these verses state the effect produced by their story. All _wondered_, but Mary _thought_ on al...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
_CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS_ ‘And all they that heard it wondered.… But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God.’ Luk...
19._Now Mary kept _Mary’s diligence in contemplating the works of God is laid before us for two reasons; first, to inform us, that this treasure was laid up in her heart, for the purpose of being publ...
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...
BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS,.... Which the shepherds had related to her: AND PONDERED [THEM] IN HER HEART; or compared them in her mind, with what had been said to herself by the angel, and also b...
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered _them_ in her heart. Ver. 19. _Mary kept all these things_] Her soul was a holy ark; her memory like the pot of manna, preserving holy truths and remarkab...
_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...
PONDERED THEM; continued to think of them and study their meaning. The habit of treasuring up the sayings of the wise and good, especially those which are recorded in the Bible, and of observing the d...
The visit and adoration of the shepherds:...
BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS, AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART....
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...
Ver. 19,20. The different effect of these things upon the generality of the people, upon Mary, and upon the shepherds, is worthy of our notice. The people only wondered, thinking the story of the shep...
The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew And when she saw it she wondered, and reflected within herself, and laid up all these things in her heart.[66]...
Luke 2:19 But G1161 Mary G3137 kept G4933 (G5707) all G3956 things G4487 G5023 pondered G4820 ...
‘But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.' And Mary, to whom the shepherds would have explained everything, kept what they had said, along with what the angel had said to her earl...
Luke 2:19. BUT MARY. Still in the foreground. KEPT ALL THESE SAYINGS. She kept, or more exactly, she was keeping, continued to keep, in her memory, all these sayings, _i.e._ all these things now spo...
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 ...
KEPT (συνετηρε). Imperfect active. She kept on keeping together (συν-) all these things. They were meat and drink to her. She was not astonished, but filled with holy awe. The verb occurs from Aris...
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...
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....
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...
MARY REMEMBERED ALL THESE THINGS. A mother remembers things connected with her children. Probably the reference here is to what the shepherds told that the angels had said....
_And pondered them in her heart_ MARY’S MUSINGS Great things were these which she kept, and most fit for earnest pondering. Great were they to all, greatest to her, the “highly favoured” amongst wom...
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...
_But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart_ putting them together and comparing them not as Bede would have it, the prophecies made about Christ by the prophets, but the things se...
_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...
1 Samuel 21:12; Genesis 37:11; Hosea 14:9; Luke 1:66; Luke 2:51;...
Kept [σ υ ν ε τ η ρ ε ι]. See on the simple verb threw, on 1 Peter 1:4. The word signifies not merely to guard, but to keep, as the result of guarding. Hence the compound verb is very expressive : kep...
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...