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Verse Luke 2:15. _LET US NOW GO EVEN UNTO BETHLEHEM_]
διελθωμεν, let us go across the country at the nearest, that
we may lose no time, that we may speedily see this glorious reconciler
of God and ma...
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UNTO BETHLEHEM - The city of David, where the angel had told them they
would find the Saviour. These shepherds appear to have been pious
people. They were waiting for the coming of the Messiah. On the...
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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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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...
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In this country there were shepherds who were in the fields, keeping
watch over their flock by night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them
and the glory of the Lord shone round about them and they we...
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JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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HEAVEN. the heaven. Singular with Art.
TO. Greek. _pros._ App-104.
LET US NOW GO. [Come now], let us go through.
UNTO. as far as.
SEE. Greek. _eidon._ App-133.
THING. word, or saying. Greek. rhem...
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_Let us now go_ Rather, COME NOW! LET US GO....
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The Angels to the Shepherds
8. _in the same country_ Tradition says that they were natives of the
little village Beth-zur (Joshua 15:58; Nehemiah 3:16). They were
feeding their flocks in the same fie...
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THE ANGELS TO THE SHEPHERDS...
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ΚΑῚ ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ.… In Hellenistic Greek ἐγένετο
sometimes becomes little more than a particle of transition in
coordinated sentences. See Luke 1:59.
ΔΙΈΛΘΩΜΕΝ ΔΉ. ‘Come now! let us go.’...
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Ver 15. And it came pass, as the angels were gone away from them into
heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even to
Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lo...
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ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Luke 2:1.
ΆΠΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΑΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G565)
уходить,
ΈΛΆΛΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980)
говорить. _Impf._ является инхоативным и
также передае...
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DISCOURSE: 1473
INQUIRY INTO THE GOSPEL RECOMMENDED
Luke 2:15. _Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing
which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us_.
IT is a rich merc...
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AS THE ANGELS— _As soon as,_ &c....
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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...
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And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into
heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto
Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord...
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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...
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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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ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE SHEPHERDS, WHO VISIT THE HOLY FAMILY. As Jesus was
born in a stable, so His birth was first announced to peasants, in
token that the gospel was meant for the poor and ignorant, as...
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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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THE SHEPHERDS. — Some, but not the best, MSS. give, as in the
margin, “the men the shepherds,” as if to emphasise the contrast
between the “angels” who departed and the “men” who remained.
THIS THING...
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CHAPTER 5
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS.
Luke 2:8
THE Gospel of St. Mark omits entirely the Nativity, passing at once to
the words and miracles of His public ministry. St. John, too,
dismisses the...
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_The shepherds go to Bethlehem_. διέλθωμεν δή, come! let us
go. The force of δή, a highly emotional particle (the second time we
have met with it, _vide_ at Matthew 13:23), can hardly be expressed in...
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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...
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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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The word which always was, let us see how it is made for us; that
which we could not see, when it was the word, let us see because it is
made flesh. (Ven. Bede) --- See how particularly the Scripture...
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THE SHEPHERDS
8-20. _“The shepherds were at that time tenting out, and keeping
watch over their flock through the night.”_ This fact refutes the
popular idea of the birth of our Savior taking place in...
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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...
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3. _The visit of the shepherds: Luke 2:15-20_.
The angel had notified a sign to the shepherds, and invited them to
ascertain its reality. This injunction they obey.
VERS. 15-20. The T. R. exhibits in...
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(15) And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into
heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto
Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the...
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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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_THE TURNING POINT IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY_
‘And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into
heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto
Bethlehem, and see this...
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15._After that the angels departed _Here is described to us the
obedience of the shepherds. The Lord had made them the witnesses of
his Son to the whole world. What he had spoken to them by his angels...
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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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AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THE ANGELS,.... The Persic version reads in
the singular number, "the angel: were gone away from them into
heaven", from whence they came, and which was the place of their abod...
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And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into
heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto
Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord...
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_As the angels were gone away_ Probably they saw them ascend; _the
shepherds said, Let us now go;_ without delay; _and see this thing_
This wonderful and important event; _which is come to pass: and t...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THE ANGELS WERE GONE AWAY FROM THEM INTO
HEAVEN, THE SHEPHERDS SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, LET US NOW GO EVEN UNTO
BETHLEHEM, AND SEE THIS THING WHICH IS COME TO PASS, WHICH THE LORD...
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The visit and adoration of the shepherds:...
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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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8-20 Angels were heralds of the new-born Saviour, but they were only
sent to some poor, humble, pious, industrious shepherds, who were in
the business of their calling, keeping watch over their flock...
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Ver. 15-18. It was night, yet they delayed not to go and make a
search, according to the revelation of the angel; and not in vain,
they FOUND MARY, AND JOSEPH, AND THE BABE. Divine revelations never
d...
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Luke 2:15 So G2532 was G1096 (G5633) when G5613 angels G32 away G565
(G5627) from G575 them G8
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‘And it came about that, when the angels went away from them into
heaven, the shepherds said one to another, “Let us now go even to
Bethlehem, and see this thing that is come about, which the Lord has...
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Luke 2:15. THE SHEPHERDS. The angels went to heaven; the shepherds
sought what the angels had praised: the former, to continue the song
of ‘glory in the highest;' the latter, to discover ‘peace on
ear...
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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 ...
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SAID TO ONE ANOTHER
(ελαλουν προς αλληλους). Imperfect tense,
inchoative, "began to speak," each to the other. It suggests also
repetition, they kept saying,NOW
(δη). A particle of urgency.THIS T...
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ANGELS
(_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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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...
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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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_Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see_
BETHLEHEM’S WONDER
Every year the Christian heart takes, in thought, the shepherd’s
pilgrimage to Bethlehem.
In this district lay the fields of Boaz in w...
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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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_And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into
heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto
Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass. This thing_, a...
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_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...
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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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1 Peter 3:22; 2 Kings 2:1; 2 Kings 2:11; Exodus 3:3; John 20:1;...
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The shepherds. Some texts add oiJ anqrwpoi, the men; but the latter
texts omit.
Let us go (die lqwmen). The preposition dia, through, implies through
the intervening space.
Thing [ρ η μ α]. See on c...
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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...
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THE INFANT CHRIST A CHRISTMAS SERMON
Luke 2:7
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In a manger, on the hay,
There, incarnate God, once lay:
From the Father's throne He came
To a world all sunk in shame;
Came a B...
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THE SEARCH OF THE SHEPHERDS
Luke 2:8
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Christmas story from any angle is most interesting. We are to
study, "The Search of the Shepherds."
The study is well named, for the dut...
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Several particulars are here observable: as, 1. That the shepherds no
sooner heard the news of. Saviour, but they ran to Bethlehem to seek
him; and though it was at midnight, yet they delayed not to g...