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Verse 28. _THEN TOOK HE HIM UP IN HIS ARMS_] What must the holy soul
of this man have felt in this moment! O inestimable privilege! And yet
ours need not be inferior: If a man love me, says Christ, he...
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BLESSED GOD - Thanked or praised God....
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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 ...
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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....
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JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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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...
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TOOK. received.
IN. into, as in Luke 2:3....
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ΑΥ̓ΤΌΣ. The word is emphatic. He took the child into his own
arms.
ΕἸΣ ΤᾺΣ�. Hence he is sometimes called _Theodokos_, ‘the
receiver of God,’ as Ignatius is sometimes called _Theophoros_,
‘borne of G...
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SIMEON AND THE NUNC DIMITTIS...
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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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VER 28. - AND BLESSED GOD, AND SAID, 29. LORD, NOW LET YOU YOUR
SERVANT DEPART IN PEACE, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD: 30. FOR MINE EYES
HAVE SEEN YOUR SALVATION, 31. WHICH YOU HAVE PREPARED BEFORE THE FACE...
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ΈΔΈΞΑΤΟ _aor. act. med. (dep.) от_ ΔΈΧΟΜΑΙ (G1209)
принимать, приветствовать,
ΆΓΚΆΛΑΣ _acc. pl._ от ΑΓΚΆΛΗ (G43) рука,
протянутая, чтобы что-л. принять (BAGD).
ΕΎΛΌΓΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΎΛΟΓΈΩ...
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DISCOURSE: 1477
TESTIMONY BORNE TO JESUS IN THE TEMPLE
Luke 2:28. _Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and
said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to
thy wor...
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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...
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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,...
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Then took he him up in his arms and blessed God and said Then took he
him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
THEN TOOK HE HIM UP IN HIS ARMS - the same Spirit that drew him there
revealing...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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καὶ, as in Luke 2:21, before ἐκλήθη, introducing the
apodosis “then” in A. V [27] and R. V [28] αὐτὸς, not
necessarily emphatic (Keil, Farrar), _vide_ Luke 1:22.
[27] Authorised Version.
[28] Revise...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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THEN TOOK HE HIM UP IN HIS ARMS,.... That same Spirit that had
revealed unto him that he should not die till he saw the Messiah with
his bodily eyes; and who by a secret impulse had moved him to go to...
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Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
Ver. 28. _Then took he him up in his arms_] The blessedest armful that
ever the old man had in his life. The patriarchs saluted him
ασπασαμ...
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_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...
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THEN TOOK HE HIM UP IN HIS ARMS, AND BLESSED GOD, AND SAID,...
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The coming of Simeon:...
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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 ...
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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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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 2:25...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
They say, too, that Simeon, "who took Christ into his arms, and gave
thanks to God, and said, Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in
peace, according to Thy wor...
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Luke 2:28 G2532 he G846 took G1209 Him G846 up G1209 (G5662) in G1519
his G846 arms G43 an
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‘Then he received him into his arms, and blessed God.
And going over to them he received Jesus into his arms and blessed
God. The fact that they yielded Jesus up might suggest that this man
was well k...
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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...
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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...
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THEN HE
(κα αυτος). Κα as in Luke 2:21. Αυτος, emphatic subject,
he after the parents.ARMS
(αγκαλας). Old Greek word, here only in the N.T. It means the
curve or inner angle of the arm....
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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...
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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
this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
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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...
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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...
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AND GAVE THANKS TO GOD. The "prophetic speeches" of Elizabeth, Mary
and Simeon form a chain. Mary sings of the Messiah [who will come
through her]; Zechariah praises the salvation of Israel; and Simeo...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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_Then took he Him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said._ Martial
says of the dying swan "Sweet cadences the swan with voice that fails
in death
Uttereth; his own dirge shaped of his own dying br...
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_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...
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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.;...
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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...
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Luke 1:46; Luke 1:64; Luke 1:68; Luke 2:13; Luke 2:14;...
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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...