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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 it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
CHAPTER II. _The decree of Augustus to enrol all the Roman empire_, 1, 2. _Joseph and Mary go to their own city to be enrolled_, 3-5. _Christ is born_, 6, 7. _His birth is announced to the shepher...
IN THOSE DAYS - About the time of the birth of John and of Christ. A DECREE - A law commanding a thing to be done. CAESAR AUGUSTUS - This was the Roman emperor. His first name was Octavianus. He was...
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 these days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world. The census first took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria; and everyone went to enroll himse...
IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS. The seventh and last occurrence of this ominous phrase. See note on Genesis 14:1. IT CAME TO PASS.. Hebraism, frequent in Luke. Compare Luke 1:8. IN. Greek. _en._ App-...
It is said -that there is no trace of such a decree in secular history." The answer is that (α) the _argumentum e silentio_is here specially invalid because there happens to be a singular deficiency o...
ἘΞΗ͂ΛΘΕΝ ΔΌΓΜΑ ΠΑΡᾺ ΚΑΊΣΑΡΟΣ ΑΥ̓ΓΟΎΣΤΟΥ�. The verb ἘΞΗ͂ΛΘΕΝ is a Hebraism in this sense, Daniel 9:2-3. ‘That there should be an enrolment of the habitable world.’ The verb ἀπογράφεσθαι is here probabl...
Luke 2:1-7. THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST In this chapter as in the last there is a prevailing triplicity of arrangement. In the first section we have—α. The Nativity, 1–7. β. The Angelic Announcement, 8...
Ver 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. 2. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, случаться. Используется как вводная формула с предлогом ΈΝ (G1722) для передачи времени. Об использовании у Луки этого гл. _см._ Plummer...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, &C.— _At that time an edict was published by Caesar Augustus, that all the provinces of the Roman empire should be registered_ or _enrolled,_—as in the margin of our English versi...
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 it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS - a general reference to the foregoing t...
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...
2:1 census (e-19) As 'registered,' Hebrews 12:23 ....
AUGUSTUS] The first Roman emperor. His actual reign dated from the battle of Actium 31 b.c. to his death in 14 a.d. TAXED] RV 'enrolled.' This enrolment was perhaps simply a census or numbering of the...
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...
II. (1) THERE WENT OUT A DECREE. — The passage that follows has given rise to almost endless discussion. The main facts may be summed up as follows: — (1) The word “taxed” is used in its older English...
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις : the days of Herod (Luke 1:5), and of the events related in the previous chapter: the birth of John, etc. δόγμα (δοκέω) = δεδογμένον, an opinion as of philosophers; here a de...
_Joseph and Mary go up to Bethlehem_. In these verses Luke makes a historical statement, which one might have been inclined to regard as an illustration of the ἀκρίβεια (Luke 1:1), at which he aimed,...
THE SAVIOR OF MANKIND IS BORN Luke 2:1-14 The manger bed and its precious occupant are among the most cherished memories of our childhood; but as we come there in later life, the wonder ever grows....
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 (1) it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the (a) world should be (b) taxed. (1) Christ, the son of God, taking upon himself the form of a ser...
By the whole world, is understood the Roman empire. (Witham) --- This decree was promulgated in the 752d year of Rome, in the 3970th year of the world, and the 42d year of the reign of Augustus, when...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS Luke 2:1-7. _“It came to pass in those days [i.e., in the days above mentioned, with reference to John the Baptist and the annunciation of the coming Christ], a decree went forth fr...
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...
1. _The Birth of Jesus: Luke 2:1-7_. And first a historical note: Luke 2:1-2. The words _in those days_ refer to the time which followed the birth of John the Baptist, and give the remark in Luke 1:80...
CONTENTS The birth of Christ. His Circumcision. Simeon's Prophecy of Christ, and the declaration of Anna concerning him. Jesus teaching in the Temple, at the age of twelve years....
(1) And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (2) (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) ...
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...
Luke relates how it happened, that Christ was born in the city of Bethlehem, as his mother was living at a distance from her home, when she was approaching to her confinement. And first he sets aside...
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 IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS,.... When John the Baptist was born, and Christ was conceived, and his mother pregnant with him, and the time of his birth drew on. The Ethiopic version reads, "in th...
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. Ver. 1. _A decree from Caesar Augustus_] By a sweet providence of God, that C...
_And it came to pass in those days_ That is, about the time in which John the Baptist was born, and Christ conceived, in the manner related in the preceding chapter; _there went out a decree from Cesa...
ALL THE WORLD; the words in the Greek may denote either all the Roman world, that is, the Roman empire, or Palestine and the neighboring countries. SHOULD BE TAXED; literally, should be enrolled, that...
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 ...
TAXED: Or, enrolled...
1-7 The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his birth were very mean. Christ was born at an inn; he came int...
LUKE CHAPTER 2 LUKE 2:1 Augustus taxes all the Roman empire: Joseph goeth with Mary to be taxed at Bethlehem. LUKE 2:6,7 The birth of Christ. LUKE 2:8 An angel bringeth news thereof to the shepherds:...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews For He was from the native soil of Bethlehem, and from the house of David; as, among the Romans, Mary is described in the census, of whom is born Christ.[182] Tertul...
Luke 2:1 And G1161 pass G1096 (G5633) in G1722 those G1565 days G2250 decree G1378 out G1831 ...
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 2:1. IN THOSE DAYS. Indefinite; about the time of the birth of John the Baptist. THERE WENT OUT A DECREE, an authoritative edict. When it was issued is not of primary importance; it affected Jo...
DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS (δογμα παρα Καισαρος Αυγουστου). Old and common word from δοκεω, to think, form an opinion. No such decree was given by Greek or Roman historians and it was for long assu...
WORLD (Greek, "oikoumenē", means "inhabited earth"). This passage is noteworthy as defining the usual New Testament use of oikoumene as the sphere of Roman rule at its greatest extent, that is, of t...
Luke 2:1 The Child and the Emperor. I. "It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." In the original meaning of these words, t...
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...
AT THAT TIME EMPEROR AUGUSTUS. Augustus Caesar, nephew and heir of Julius Caesar, was now the ruler of the civilized world. Herod was king of Judea, but Augustus Caesar was over him. TO REGISTER THEMS...
_A decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed There is no grand reason, you see, given why Mary and Joseph should go to Judaea._ The angel who is said to have announced the coming...
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...
_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...
Acts 11:28; Acts 25:11; Acts 25:21; Luke 3:1; Mark 14:9;...
Decree [δ ο γ μ α]. Wyc., mandment. From dokew, to think. Hence, strictly, a personal opinion; and, as the opinion of one who can impose his opinion authoritatively on others, a decree. The world [τ η...
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...
That all the world should be enrolled — That all the inhabitants, male and female, of every town in the Roman empire, with their families and estates, should be registered....
Did Luke make a mistake when he mentioned a worldwide census under Caesar Augustus? PROBLEM: Luke refers to a worldwide census under Caesar Augustus when Quirinius was governor of Syria. However, acc...
The conclusion of the former chapter acquainted us with the birth of John the Baptist; the beginning of ths chapter relates the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and the remarkable circumstances whic...