George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Luke 2:27
And he came by the spirit, or moved by the holy Spirit. (Witham)
And he came by the spirit, or moved by the holy Spirit. (Witham)
Verse 27. _HE CAME BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE TEMPLE_] Probably he had in view the prophecy of Malachi, Malachi 3:1, _The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple_. In this _messenger_ of th...
BY THE SPIRIT - By the direction of the Spirit. INTO THE TEMPLE - Into that part of the temple where the public worship was chiefly performed - into the court of the women. See the notes at Matthew 2...
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 ...
SIMEON. As the family enters the Temple they are met by Simeon, an aged man whose devout life and expectation of Messiah had been rewarded by a Divine intimation that he should live to see the Christ....
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
Now--look you--there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon. This man was good and pious. He was waiting for the comforting of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. He had received a message from the...
BY. in. Greek. _en._ App-104. THE SPIRIT. The Holy Spirit Himself. See App-101. THE TEMPLE. the Temple courts. Greek. _hieron._ See notes on Matthew 4:5; Matthew 23:10. FOR. concerning. Greek. _per...
_by the Spirit_ Rather, IN THE SPIRIT. _brought in the child_ The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy (vi.) says that he saw Him shining like a pillar of light in His mother's arms, which is probably derive...
Simeon and the Nunc Dimittis 25. _a man … whose name was Simeon_ This cannot be Rabban Shimeon the son of Hillel (whom the Talmud is on this account supposed to pass over almost unnoticed), because h...
SIMEON AND THE NUNC DIMITTIS...
ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΙ. ‘In the (Holy) Spirit.’ ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΕἸΣΑΓΑΓΕΙ͂Ν … ΤῸ ΠΑΙΔΊΟΝ. The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy (vi.) says that he saw Him shining like a pillar of light in His mother’s arms, which is p...
VER 25. AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A MAN IN JERUSALEM, WHOSE NAME WAS SIMEON; AND THE SAME MAN WAS JUST AND DEVOUT, WAITING FOR THE CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL: AND THE HOLY GHOST WAS UPON HIM. 26. AND IT WAS R...
ΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Luke 2:16. ΕΊΣΑΓΑΓΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf. от_ ΕΙΣΆΓΩ (G1521) вносить. _Inf._ с _предл._ ΆΝ (G302) во временном значении, пока (RG, 1072). ΠΟΙΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Presenting the Child to the Lord Scripture_ Luke 2:22-40 And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Prophecies (Luke 2:22-38) 22 And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23(a...
And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, AND HE CAME BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE TEMPLE - the Spirit guiding...
25 Simeon signifies to _ hear_, and is representative of those in Judah whose ears were open to the law of the Lord and who looked for the fulfillment of the prophetic promises. As the years spoken of...
2:27 in (g-4) _ En_ . see Matthew 3:11 . temple; (h-9) _ Hieron_ , as Matthew 4:5 ....
THE PURIFICATION AND PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. Women after childbirth were unclean, for a boy forty days, for a girl eighty days. They were then bound to present an offering for Purification, viz. a...
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...
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...
HE CAME BY THE SPIRIT. — Better, as in Revelation 1:10, _in the Spirit_ — i.e., in a spiritual state in which the power of the Divine Spirit was the pervading element. THE PARENTS. — Here, as in Luke...
ἐν τῷ Πνεύματι : observe the frequent reference to the Spirit in connection with Simeon, _vide_ Luke 2:25-26. εἰθισμένον (ἐθίζω), here only in N. T.: according to the _established custom_ of the law....
_Simeon_. Συμεών, introduced as a stranger (ἄνθρωπος ἦν). The legendary spirit which loves definite particulars about celebrities of Scripture has tried to fill up the blank. The father of Gamaliel th...
THE AGED SIMEON'S PROPHETIC BLESSING Luke 2:25-39 Two aged watchers welcomed the King; but no one else, of all the crowds who went and came, guessed that the Messenger of the Covenant had suddenly c...
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...
And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the (k) parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, (k) Joseph and Mary: and he says "parents" because that is w...
CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS & HIS PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE 21-24. _“And when the eight days for circumcising Him were fulfilled, and He was called Jesus, being called by the angel before he was conceived...
From the twenty-fifth verse Simeon becomes the centre of the picture: Luke 2:25-28 relate his coming in; Luke 2:29-32, his song; Luke 2:33-35, his address to the parents. VERS. 25-28. In times of spir...
SIXTH NARRATIVE: CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF JESUS, LUKE 2:21-40. This narrative comprises 1. The circumcision of Jesus (Luke 2:21); 2. His presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-38); 3. A histori...
(25) And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon: and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. (26) And it was reve...
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...
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 HE CAME BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE TEMPLE,.... By the same Spirit of God, that revealed the above to him. The Ethiopic version renders it, "the Spirit brought him into the temple": but Simeon was not...
And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Ver. 27. _And he came by the spirit, &c._] So still, "the steps...
_Behold there was a man_, &c. There was now in Jerusalem one Simeon, venerable on account of his age, piety, and virtue. For, _he was just and devout_ Righteous toward his fellow-creatures, and holy t...
AND HE CAME BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE TEMPLE; AND WHEN THE PARENTS BROUGHT IN THE CHILD JESUS TO DO FOR HIM AFTER THE CUSTOM OF THE LAW,...
The coming of Simeon:...
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 ...
25-35 The same Spirit that provided for the support of Simeon's hope, provided for his joy. Those who would see Christ must go to his temple. Here is a confession of his faith, that this Child in his...
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The Protevangelium of James For it was he who had been warned by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death until he should see the Christ in the flesh.[57]...
Luke 2:27 So G2532 came G2064 (G5627) by G1722 Spirit G4151 into G1519 temple G2411 And G2532 parents...
JESUS IS CIRCUMCISED AND PRESENTED AT THE TEMPLE AND IS BLESSED BY SIMON WHO PROPHESIES OVER HIM (2:21-35). The purification of Mary and Jesus from the ritual defilement of child birth was necessary d...
‘And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him after the custom of the law.' And the Spirit guided this man into the Te...
Luke 2:27. AND HE CAME IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE TEMPLE. His steps were ordered by the Spirit, in the power of which he lived. The Spirit led him thither to meet this child, whom he was enabled, by the s...
The fulfilment of the legal requirements respecting the child Jesus: His circumcision and naming on the eighth day (Luke 2:21), as one of the Jewish people, and the redemption from the temple service...
WHEN THE PARENTS BROUGHT IN THE CHILD JESUS (εν τω εισαγαγειν τους γονεις το παιδιον Ιησουν). A neat Greek and Hebrew idiom difficult to render into English, very common in the LXX;IN THE BRINGING...
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....
Luke 2:21. _And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb._ Although the old...
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...
LED BY THE SPIRIT. The Holy Spirit directed him. Compare Acts 8:29. WHAT THE LAW REQUIRED. The ritual of the Law was strictly obeyed, because Jesus lived under the Law....
_Whose name was Simeon_ READINESS FOR GOD’S WILL “Some years ago,” says a lady, “I made the acquaintance of an old peasant in a little German village, where I for some time resided. He was called Go...
_Brought in the Child Jesus_ DEDICATING CHILDREN TO THE LORD When the Duke of Kent was dying, he desired that the little princess Victoria should be placed beside him, and then he offered a very aff...
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
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:27 IN THE SPIRIT. Under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit (compare Matthew 22:43;...
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...
Observe here how God joins and couples in Christ the humble with the sublime, the human with the divine, the poison with the antidote, to show that in Him human nature was joined to the Divine Majesty...
_And he came by the Spirit into the Temple._ By the impulse of the Holy Spirit, moved and incited by the Holy Spirit, say Euthymius and Theophylact. And the same Spirit who urged him thither gave him...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:21. THE CHILD.—The best MSS. read “Him.” Luke 2:22. HER PURIFICATION.—The true reading is, “_their_ purification” (R.V.). The mother was ceremonially unclean by child-birth, t...
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...
Acts 10:19; Acts 11:12; Acts 16:7; Acts 8:29; Luke 4:1;...
By the Spirit [ε ν τ ω π ν ε υ μ α τ ι]. Lit., as Rev., "in the Spirit :" the Holy Spirit prompting him. Indicating rather his spiritual condition, as one who walked with God, than a special divine im...
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...
By the Spirit — By a particular revelation or impulse from him....