Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Luke 2:22-24
THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE
THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE
Verse Luke 2:22. _DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION_] That is, _thirty-three_ days after what was termed the seven days of her uncleanness-_forty_ days in all: for that was the time appointed by the law, afte...
DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION - Among the Hebrews a mother was required to remain at home for about forty days after the birth of a male child and about eighty for a female, and during that time she was re...
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 CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF JESUS. When the babe is a week old He is circumcised and named, and when He is a month old His parents take Him to the Temple in Jerusalem for the double rite of p...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
When the eight days necessarily prior to circumcision had elapsed, he was called by the name of Jesus, the name by which he had been called by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb. When...
THE DAYS: i.e. forty days after the birth of. son (eighty after. daughter). See Leviticus 12:2 HER. their. So all the texts; i.e. Joseph and Mary. ACCORDING TO. Greek. _kata._ App-104. See Exodus 13:...
The Presentation in the Temple 22. _her purification_ Rather, THEIR PURIFICATION. The reading αὐτῆς, -her", of the Received Text is almost unsupported. All the Uncials read αὐτῶν, -their," except D, w...
VER 22. AND WHEN THE DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES WERE ACCOMPLISHED, THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM, TO PRESENT HIM TO THE LORD; 23. (AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF THE LORD,...
ΚΑΘΑΡΙΣΜΌΣ (G2512) очищение. Рождение мальчика делало мать нечистой на 7 дней; она должна была не выходить из дома в течение 40 дней и не дотрагиваться до священных предметов. Затем она должна была пр...
DISCOURSE: 1475 PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Luke 2:22. And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to...
AND WHEN THE DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION— As Jesus was circumcised, though perfectly free from sin; so his mother submitted to thepurifications prescribed by the law, notwithstanding she was free from th...
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...
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,...
And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; AND WHEN THE DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION. This reading...
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...
2:22 Lord (a-26) 'Jehovah.'...
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...
HER PURIFICATION] RV 'their purification,' i.e. either, (1) the Jews' purification, or (2) the purification of mother and child. Strictly speaking, however, only the mother (not the child) was ceremon...
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...
WHEN THE DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION ... — The primary idea of the law of Leviticus 12:1, would seem to have been that of witnessing to the taint of imperfection and sin attaching to every child of man,...
κατὰ τὸν νόμον Μ. The law relating to women after confinement is contained in Leviticus 12 ἀνήγαγον : at the close of these forty days of purification His parents took Jesus up to Jerusalem from Bethl...
_Circumcision and presentation in the temple_....
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...
(4) And when the days of (h) her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present [him] to the Lord; (4) Christ, upon whom all our sins were lai...
Of her purification. The blessed Virgin mother stood not in need of this ceremony, to which she submitted herself, as her Son did to that of circumcision. (Witham) --- Whence St. Lawrence Justinian in...
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...
2. _The presentation: Luke 2:22-38_. And first the sacrifice, Luke 2:22-24. After the circumcision there were two other rites to observe. One concerned the mother. Levitically unclean for eight days a...
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...
(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. (22) And when the days of...
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...
_THE PURIFICATION AND THE PRESENTATION_ ‘And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought Him to Jerusalem, to present Him to the Lord.’ Luke 2:22...
22._And after that the days were fulfilled _On the fortieth day after the birth, (Leviticus 12:2,) the rite of purification was necessary to be performed. But Mary and Joseph come to Jerusalem for ano...
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 WHEN THE DAYS OF PURIFICATION,.... Of the Virgin Mary, the mother of our Lord; though most copies read, "of their purification"; and so read the Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, including bo...
And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present _him_ to the Lord; Ver. 22. _And when the days of her purification_] S...
_When the days of her purification were accomplished_ “It appears, from Leviticus 12:1, that for the first seven days, every woman who had borne a child, was considered as unclean in so great a degree...
DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION; after the birth of a son, a mother among the Jews was required to remain at home, and was considered as unclean forty days. These were called the days of her purification. Sh...
THE CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF CHRIST. Luke 2:21 The circumcision:...
AND WHEN THE DAYS OF HER PURIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES WERE ACCOMPLISHED, THEY BROUGHT HIM TO JERUSALEM TO PRESENT HIM TO THE LORD,...
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 ...
21-24 Our Lord Jesus was not born in sin, and did not need that mortification of a corrupt nature, or that renewal unto holiness, which were signified by circumcision. This ordinance was, in his case...
Ver. 22-24. In these verses is a record of the virgin's obedience to two laws, the one concerning the purification of the woman after child birth; the other concerning the presenting of the male child...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And still further does Luke say in reference to the Lord: "When the days of purification were accomplished, they brought Him up to Jerusalem, to present Him before...
Luke 2:22 Now G2532 when G3753 days G2250 her G846 purification G2512 according G2596 law G3551 Moses G3475 completed...
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...
Luke 2:22. THEIR PURIFICATION. This refers to Mary and Joseph, rather than to Mary and the child. In Leviticus 12:4-6, there is no hint of the purification of the child. The presence of Joseph was req...
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...
THE DAYS OF THEIR PURIFICATION (α ημερα του καθαρισμου αυτων). The old manuscripts have "their" (αυτων) instead of "her" (αυτης) of the later documents. But it is not clear whether "their" refers to...
Luke 2:22 I. The entrance of our Lord into His Temple had been foretold by Malachi four hundred years before (Malachi 3:1). But the Lord did not now come in His glory, like as before when that bright...
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...
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...
THE CEREMONY OF PURIFICATION. Thirty-three days after the birth of a male child (sixty-six days for a female child), he was to be presented at the temple with the proper ritual (_see Leviticus 12)._...
_The days of her purification_ THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE I. 1. Consider the inner meaning of the law which was here fulfilled by the Infant Jesus. Ever since the day that Israel had been delive...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:22 THE TIME... FOR THEIR PURIFICATION. Forty days after Jesus’ birth (Leviticus 12:3). UP TO JERUSALEM. Jerusalem is on a
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
_And when the days of her purification according to the law o Moses were accomplished, they brought Him to Jerusalem, to present Him to the Lord._ Observe that here three different ordinances are inte...
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...
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 2:21. 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...
Leviticus 12:2...
The days of her purification [α ι η μ ε ρ α ι τ ο υ κ α θ α ρ ι σ μ ο υ α υ τ η ς]. The A. V. follows the reading aujthv, her : but all the best texts read aujtwn, their; the plural including Joseph w...
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...
The days — The forty days prescribed, Leviticus 12:2, Leviticus 12:4....
A twofold act of obedience doth the Holy Virgin here perform to two ceremonial laws, the one concerning the purification of women after child-birth, the other concerning the presenting the male-child...