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Verse Luke 2:19. _AND PONDERED_ THEM _IN HER HEART._]
συμβαλλουσα, _Weighing them in her heart_. _Weighing_ is an
English translation of our word _pondering_, from the Latin
_ponderare_. Every circum...
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MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS - All that happened, and all that was said
respecting her child. She “remembered” what the angel had said to
“her;” what had happened to Elizabeth and to the shepherds - all...
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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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JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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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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KEPT. kept within herself.
AND PONDERED. pondering; i.e. weighing them. Compare Gen 87:11....
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_all these things_ or -words."
_pondered_ Literally, "_casting together_," i. e. comparing and
considering; like our -casting in mind." Comp. Genesis 37:11, "his
father _observed_the saying." She did...
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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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ΠΆΝΤΑ ΤᾺ ῬΉΜΑΤΑ ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ ‘all these things’ or
‘words.’
ΣΥΝΕΤΉΡΕΙ. The imperfect follows the aorist as in Luke 1:64
(where see note). The verb is used in Daniel 7:28; Mark 6:20.
ΣΥΝΒΆΛΛΟΥΣΑ. Literally,...
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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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ΣΥΝΕΤΉ ΡΕΙ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΤΗΡΈΩ (G4933)
иметь в виду, хранить или накапливать
— в памяти (BAGD). Непростые события,
которые происходили, должны были
запоминаться, чтобы быть правильно
истолко...
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BUT MARY, &C.— _But Mary observed all those sayings, perceiving
their meaning in her own mind._ Elsner. Mary was greatly affected
with, and thought upon the shepherd's words; the sense of which she
wa...
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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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But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS, AND PONDERED [OR 'REVOLVED'] THEM IN
HER HEART - seeking to gather from them, in combination, what l...
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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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Mary's was a quiet and reflective nature: cp. Luke 2:51. These two vv.
suggest that it was from her the information contained in these
Chapter s was derived....
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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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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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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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MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS. — On the assumption that the whole
narrative is traceable to the Virgin herself as its first author,
these brief and simple touches as to her own feelings are of singular
i...
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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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The shepherds of course told what they had seen in Bethlehem, and how
they had been led to go there, and these verses state the effect
produced by their story. All _wondered_, but Mary _thought_ on al...
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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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Mary kept all these things, and compared what was accomplished in her,
concerning the Lord, with what had been written of him by the
prophets. (Ven. Bede) --- She considered in her heart the arguments...
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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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_CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS_
‘And all they that heard it wondered.… But Mary kept all these
things, and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned,
glorifying and praising God.’
Luk...
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19._Now Mary kept _Mary’s diligence in contemplating the works of
God is laid before us for two reasons; first, to inform us, that this
treasure was laid up in her heart, for the purpose of being publ...
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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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BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS,.... Which the shepherds had related to
her:
AND PONDERED [THEM] IN HER HEART; or compared them in her mind, with
what had been said to herself by the angel, and also b...
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But Mary kept all these things, and pondered _them_ in her heart.
Ver. 19. _Mary kept all these things_] Her soul was a holy ark; her
memory like the pot of manna, preserving holy truths and remarkab...
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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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PONDERED THEM; continued to think of them and study their meaning. The
habit of treasuring up the sayings of the wise and good, especially
those which are recorded in the Bible, and of observing the
d...
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The visit and adoration of the shepherds:...
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BUT MARY KEPT ALL THESE THINGS, AND PONDERED THEM IN HER HEART....
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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. 19,20. The different effect of these things upon the generality
of the people, upon Mary, and upon the shepherds, is worthy of our
notice. The people only wondered, thinking the story of the shep...
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The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
And when she saw it she wondered, and reflected within herself, and
laid up all these things in her heart.[66]...
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Luke 2:19 But G1161 Mary G3137 kept G4933 (G5707) all G3956 things
G4487 G5023 pondered G4820 ...
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‘But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.'
And Mary, to whom the shepherds would have explained everything, kept
what they had said, along with what the angel had said to her earl...
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Luke 2:19. BUT MARY. Still in the foreground.
KEPT ALL THESE SAYINGS. She kept, or more exactly, she was keeping,
continued to keep, in her memory, all these sayings, _i.e._ all these
things now spo...
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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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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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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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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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MARY REMEMBERED ALL THESE THINGS. A mother remembers things connected
with her children. Probably the reference here is to what the
shepherds told that the angels had said....
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_And pondered them in her heart_
MARY’S MUSINGS
Great things were these which she kept, and most fit for earnest
pondering.
Great were they to all, greatest to her, the “highly favoured”
amongst wom...
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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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_But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart_
putting them together and comparing them not as Bede would have it,
the prophecies made about Christ by the prophets, but the things se...
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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 Samuel 21:12; Genesis 37:11; Hosea 14:9; Luke 1:66; Luke 2:51;...
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Kept [σ υ ν ε τ η ρ ε ι]. See on the simple verb threw, on 1
Peter 1:4. The word signifies not merely to guard, but to keep, as the
result of guarding. Hence the compound verb is very expressive : kep...
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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...