Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Luke 2:25-35
SIMEON AND THE NUNC DIMITTIS
SIMEON AND THE NUNC DIMITTIS
Verse 25. _AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A MAN IN JERUSALEM_] This man is distinguished because of his singular piety. There can be no doubt that there were many persons in Jerusalem named _Simeon_, besides...
WHOSE NAME WAS SIMEON - Some have supposed that this Simeon was a son of the famous “Hillel,” a distinguished teacher in Jerusalem, and president of the Sanhedrin; but nothing is certainly known of hi...
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...
MAN. Greek. _anthropos._ See App-123. SIMEON. In Hebrew. _Shimeon_. hearing. Compare Genesis 29:33. Possibly the father of Gamaliel (Acts 5:34. DEVOUT. Greek _eulabes._ Used only by Luke. taking hold...
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...
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...
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DISCOURSE: 1476 CHRIST THE CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL Luke 2:25. _The same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel_. IN every age of the Church, there have been some distinguished f...
THE CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL— This is a phrase frequently used both by the ancient and modern Jews for a description of the Messiah. The _day of consolation_ is a common phrase among them to signify the...
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, 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. AND, BEHOLD, THERE WA...
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...
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...
DEVOUT] more exactly 'God-fearing.' The word is peculiar to St, Luke (Acts 2:5; Acts 8:2; Acts 22:12). THE CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL] a common expression among the rabbis for the Messianic age. 'So may I...
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...
WHOSE NAME WAS SIMEON. — Some writers have identified the man thus described with a very memorable Simeon in the annals of the Jewish scribes, the son of Hillel, and the father of Gamaliel. He became...
_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...
(5) 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 (i) Holy Ghost was upon him. (5) Simeon...
A man... named Simeon, whom some conjecture to have been one of the Jewish priests. --- Waiting for the consolation of Israel, for the happy coming of the Messias. --- And the Holy Ghost was in him, b...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
_‘THE CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL’_ ‘Simeon … waiting for the consolation of Israel.’ Luke 2:25 A very precious title of our Lord. Simeon, who was ‘waiting for the consolation of Israel,’ was satisfied i...
25._And, lo, there was a man in Jerusalem _The design of this narrative is to inform us that, though nearly the whole nation was profane and irreligious, and despised God, yet that a few worshippers o...
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 BEHOLD THERE WAS A MAN IN JERUSALEM,.... Not in Nazareth, or Bethlehem, but in Jerusalem, the metropolis of the nation: one that lived there, was an inhabitant of that city, and a person of fame a...
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. Ver. 25. _Just and...
_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...
CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL; the Messiah, from whom consolation comes. Aged persons who have long walked uprightly in piety towards God and good will towards men, often have, as they approach the close of l...
The coming of Simeon:...
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....
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...
Ver. 25-28. Interpreters have spent much pains in fortifying their conjectures (for they can be no more) that this Simeon was Rabban Simeon, the son of Hillel, the father of Gamaliel, but to what purp...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews And if these blessings accrue through Christ, they will not have been prophesied of another than Him through whom we consider them to have been accomplished.[257] Te...
Luke 2:25 And G2532 behold G2400 (G5628) was G2258 (G5713) man G444 in G1722 Jerusalem G2419 whose...
‘And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.' We are now introduced t...
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 2:25. SIMEON. According to some, this was the son of the famous Rabbi Hillel, and father of Gamaliel the teacher of Paul (Acts 5:34). The Rabbis say that Jesus was born in the days of Rabbi Simeo...
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...
DEVOUT (ευλαβης). Used only by Luke (Acts 2:5; Acts 8:2; Acts 22:12) in the N.T. Common in ancient Greek from Plato on. It means taking hold well or carefully (ευ and λαβειν) and so reverently, circ...
JUST AND DEVOUT righteousness The Old Testament righteousness. Summary: In the Old Testament "righteous" and "just" are English words used to translate the Hebrew words yasher, "upright"; tsadiq, ...
Luke 2:25 Some Aspects of the Presentation in the Temple. I. Two points strike us in Simeon pre-eminently, whether they are marks of a school of Jewish interpretation, or rather traits of a single so...
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...
WHOSE NAME WAS SIMEON. He was the first prophet to declare that Christ _had_ come. WAITING FOR ISRAEL TO BE SAVED. That is, the Coming of the Messiah. THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS WITH HIM. To give him superno...
_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...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:25 Nothing else is known about SIMEON. CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL is the hope that God would come to rescue and comfort his people (see...
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...
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, 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._ Calvin would have i...
_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...
2 Peter 1:21; Acts 10:2; Acts 10:22; Acts 24:16; Daniel 6:22;...
Devout [ε υ λ α β η ς]. Used by Luke only. The kindred word, eujlabeia, godly fear, occurs twice : Hebrews 5:7; Hebrews 12:28. From eu, well, and lambanw, to take hold of. Hence of a circumspect or ca...
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 consolation of Israel — A common phrase for the Messiah, who was to be the everlasting consolation of the Israel of God. The Holy Ghost was upon him — That is, he was a prophet....
No sooner was our Saviour brought into the temple and presented to the Lord by his holy parents, but in springs old Simeon,. pious and devout man who had. revelation from God that he should not die un...