The child grew and became strong. He experienced human life to its fullest, by growing up in a normal childhood. He was full of wisdom. "The divine nature revealed its own wisdom in proportion to the measure of the bodily growth." Cyril. See 1 Timothy 3:16. One of the riddles of time, is that the God-man should become a baby, not only in body, but in mind and wisdom as well. (Compare Philippians 2:6-11.)
Verse 40. _THE CHILD GREW_] As to his _body _- being in perfect health. _WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT_] His rational _soul_ became strong and vigorous. _FILLED WITH WISDOM_] The divinity continuing to com...
STRONG IN SPIRIT - In mind, intellect, understanding. Jesus had a human soul, and that soul was subject to all the proper laws of a human spirit. It therefore increased in knowledge, strength, and cha...
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 ...
AN INCIDENT IN JESUS-' BOYHOOD. The lad grows in body and mind and is blessed by God. When He is twelve years old He accompanies His parents to the Passover at Jerusalem, and when the week's Feast is...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
There was a prophetess called Anna. She was the daughter of Phanuel and she belonged to the tribe of Asher. She was far advanced in years. She had lived with her husband ever since seven years after s...
IN SPIRIT. All the texts omit this. App-101.Matthew 2 comes in here. THE GRACE, &c. Compare John 1:14.Isaiah 11:2; Isaiah 11:3....
Anna the Prophetess. The Return to Nazareth 36. _Anna_ The same name as Hannah (1 Samuel 1:20), from the root _Chânan_, -he was gracious." _a prophetess_ like Miriam, Deborah, Huldah (2 Chronicles 3...
_filled_ Rather, BEING FILLED. The growth of our Lord is here described as a natural human growth. The nature of the -Hypostatic Union" of His Divine and Human nature what is called the _Perichoresis_...
ANNA THE PROPHETESS. THE RETURN TO NAZARETH...
ἘΚΡΑΤΑΙΟΥ͂ΤΟ. The ἐν πνεύματι of our Received Text is omitted in אBDL. ΠΛΗΡΟΎΜΕΝΟΝ. ‘Being or _becoming_ filled.’ The growth of our Lord is here described as a natural human growth. The nature of the...
VER 39. AND WHEN THEY HAD PERFORMED ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE LORD, THEY RETURNED INTO GALILEE, TO THEIR OWN CITY NAZARETH. 40. AND THE CHILD GREW, AND WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT, FILLED WITH...
ΗΎΞΑΝΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΑΎΞΆΝΩ (G837) расти, ΈΚΡΑΤΑΙΟΫ́ΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. от_ ΚΡΑΤΑΙΌΩ (G2901) делать сильным; _pass._ быть усиленным, становиться сильным. Акцент делается на физической силе...
AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS UPON HIM— See the note on Luke 2:52....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Puzzles (Luke 2:39-52) 39 And when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth. 40And the chi...
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 the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. AND THE CHILD GREW, AND WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT - His mental development keeping pace with His...
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...
GROWTH AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT OF JESUS. The information may have been gained from the mother herself. WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT] RV omits 'in spirit.' FILLED WITH WISDOM] lit. 'becoming full of wisdom...
THE BOY JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. We know nothing directly of the childhood of Jesus except this one incident, which is recorded entirely for the sake of the remarkable utterance in Luke 2:49. 41. As wome...
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...
WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT. — The better MSS. omit the last two words. FILLED WITH WISDOM. — The Greek participle implies the continuous process of “being filled,” and so conveys the thought expressed in...
ηὔξανε καὶ ἐκραταιοῦτο, grew, and waxed strong, both in reference to the physical nature. πνεύματι in T.R. is borrowed from Luke 1:80; a healthy, vigorous child, an important thing to note in referenc...
_Return to Nazareth_. πόλιν ἑαυτῶν, their own city, certainly suggesting that Nazareth, not Bethlehem, had been the true home of Joseph and Mary....
THE BOY JESUS IN THE TEMPLE Luke 2:40-52 “Solitary floweret,” says Stier, referring to this incident, “gathered from the wonderful enclosed garden of the thirty years and plucked precisely when the...
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 the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, (u) filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. (u) As Christ grew up in age, so the virtue of his Godhead showed itself more and more....
_The child grew, and waxed strong, full of wisdom, and (ver. 52) increased in wisdom and age. The Arians from this, pretend to prove that Christ was not truly God, who cannot advance or increase in wi...
THE HOLY FAMILY RETURN FROM EGYPT 19-23, & Luke 2:39-40. _“And Herod having died.”_ We do not know how long they remained in Egypt, but evidently the period was brief. Scarcely has the wail of the sla...
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...
(39) And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. (40) And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with w...
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...
40._And the child grew _From the infancy of Christ Matthew passes immediately to his manifestation. (230) Luke relates here a single fact, which well deserved to be recorded. In the midst of his boyho...
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 THE CHILD GREW,.... In body, in strength, and in stature; which shows that it was a true body Christ assumed, and like ours, which did not come to its maturity at once, but by degrees: AND WAXED...
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. Ver. 40. _And the grace of God was upon him_] Without measure: so that of his overflow we have a...
_And when they_ Namely, the parents of Jesus; _had performed all things according to the law_ Which they made conscience of doing, that they might _fulfil all righteousness; they returned into Galilee...
The prophetess Anna:...
AND THE CHILD GREW, AND WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT, FILLED WITH WISDOM; AND THE GRACE OF GOD WAS UPON HIM. Simeon was not the only faithful soul in Jerusalem at that time. A prophetess, Anna, whose father...
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 ...
36-40 There was much evil then in the church, yet God left not himself without witness. Anna always dwelt in, or at least attended at, the temple. She was always in a praying spirit; gave herself to...
This verse shortly sums up all that we have in the Gospel of the history of the first twelve years of our Saviour's life. Though there could be no accession to the perfection of the Divine nature in C...
Luke 2:40 And G1161 Child G3813 grew G837 (G5707) and G2532 strong G2901 (G5712) spirit G4151 filled...
‘And the child grew, and waxed strong, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was on him.' Meanwhile the child Jesus continued to grow. And He grew strong spiritually, and was filled with wisdom (co...
ANNA THE PROPHETESS COMES TO WHERE JESUS IS IN THE TEMPLE AND GIVES THANKS TO GOD AND SPREADS THE NEWS AMONG THE GODLY IN ISRAEL (2:36-40). In the larger chiasmus (see on introduction to Luke 1:1) thi...
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...
Luke 2:40. AND THE CHILD GREW. Comp, the account of John's youth (chap. Luke 1:80). The next section illustrates what is stated in this verse, and Luke 2:52 repeats and extends the statement. Growth o...
THE CHILD GREW (ηυξανε). Imperfect indicative of a very ancient verb (αυξανω). This child grew and waxed strong (εκραταιουτο, imperfect middle), a hearty vigorous little boy (παιδιον). Both verbs Lu...
Luke 2:40 I. "The Child grew." He grew in stature, and He grew in character and goodness. He did not stand still. Although it was God Himself who was revealed to us in the life of Jesus Christ, yet 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...
_And the Child grew, and waxed strong in spirit._ OUR LORD’S EARLY YEARS UPON EARTH Notice a few things which are remarkable in our Lord’s Childhood, and which are too often wanting in that of other...
_Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover_ THE LIFE OF JESUS I. JESUS CHRIST IN HOME LIFE. “And He went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto th...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:40 GREW AND BECAME STRONG, FILLED WITH WISDOM.... THE FAVOR OF GOD. Compare Luke 1:80. Jesus experienced physical and intellectual growth as any ordinary human child
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 the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit._ The Greek, Syriac, and Arabic add " _in spirit_," and Euthymius explains it that Christ did _not_ receive greater spiritual strength _inwardly_ day by...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 2:40. WAXED STRONG.—The words “in spirit” are added from Luke 1:80; omitted in R.V. FILLED WITH WISDOM.—Lit. “becoming full of wisdom.” THE GRACE OF GOD.—The favour of God. The f...
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...
1 Samuel 2:18; 1 Samuel 2:26; 1 Samuel 3:19; 2 Timothy 2:1; Acts 4:33;...
The child grew, etc. The Jews marked the stages of a child's development by nine different terms : the new born babe (Isaiah 9:6); the suckling (Isaiah 11:8); the suckling beginning to ask for food (L...
THE CHILDHOOD OF CHRIST Luke 2:40 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now into the study of a Holy Child. He was a Child different from any other child ever born of woman. As preparatory to the study proper...
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...
And the child grew — In bodily strength and stature; and waxed strong in spirit — The powers of his human mind daily improved; filled with wisdom — By the light of the indwelling Spirit, which gradual...