Each to his own city
(εκαστος εις την εαυτου πολιν). A number of papyri in Egypt have the heading enrolment by household (απογραφη κατ' οικιαν). Here again Luke is vindicated. Each man went to the town where his family register was kept.
Verse Luke 2:3. _AND ALL WENT TO BE TAXED, EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY._] The Roman census was an institution of _Servius Tullius_, sixth king of Rome. From the account which _Dionysius_ of _Halicarna...
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 ...
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...
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
In these days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world. The census first took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria; and everyone went to enroll himse...
EVERY ONE, &c.. Papyrus (in British Museum), being. rescript of the Prefect Gaius Vibius Maximus (A.D. 103-4), shows that Herod must have been acting under Roman orders. Vib. Max. was Prefect _of_ Egy...
_every one into his own city_ This method of enrolment was a concession to Jewish prejudices. The Roman method was to enrol each person at his own place of residence. Incidentally this unexplained not...
Luke 2:1-7. THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST In this chapter as in the last there is a prevailing triplicity of arrangement. In the first section we have—α. The Nativity, 1–7. β. The Angelic Announcement, 8...
ἝΚΑΣΤΟΣ ΕἸΣ ΤῊΝ ἙΑΥΤΟΥ͂ ΠΌΛΙΝ. This method of enrolment was a concession to Jewish prejudices. The Roman method was to enrol each person at his own place of residence. Incidentally this unexplained no...
Ver 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. 2. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria....
ΈΠΟΡΕΎΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G4198) идти, путешествовать. Impf, изображает длительное действие в прошлом. По поводу того, что каждый пошел записываться в свой город, _см._ NDIEC,...
AND ALL WENT TO BE TAXED— When the _census_ was made in any country under the dominion of the Romans, the inhabitants were obligedto attend in the cities to which they belonged. See Livy, lib. 42. 100...
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...
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. AND ALL WENT TO BE TAXED, EVERYONE INTO HIS OWN CITY - i:e., the city of his extraction, according to the Jewish custom; not of his abode, wh...
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...
2:3 roll, (e-10) As 'registered,' Hebrews 12:23 ....
INTO HIS OWN CITY] It was a fixed principle of Roman government to respect the feelings and even the prejudices of subject peoples, and Herod, being a foreigner whose rule was barely tolerated by patr...
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...
ALL WENT TO BE TAXED. — As a rule the practice in a Roman census was to register people in their place of residence; but this was probably modified in Palestine, in deference to the feelings of the pe...
_Joseph and Mary go up to Bethlehem_. In these verses Luke makes a historical statement, which one might have been inclined to regard as an illustration of the ἀκρίβεια (Luke 1:1), at which he aimed,...
πάντες : not all throughout the world, but all in Palestine the execution of the decree there being what the evangelist is interested in. εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν πόλιν (or ἑαυτοῦ π., W.H [22]). Does this mean t...
THE SAVIOR OF MANKIND IS BORN Luke 2:1-14 The manger bed and its precious occupant are among the most cherished memories of our childhood; but as we come there in later life, the wonder ever grows....
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...
Into his own city, i.e. the city of every one's family. Now Joseph and Mary, being both of the family of David, were obliged to go to Bethlehem, the city of David, where by Providence, according to th...
THE BIRTH OF JESUS Luke 2:1-7. _“It came to pass in those days [i.e., in the days above mentioned, with reference to John the Baptist and the annunciation of the coming Christ], a decree went forth fr...
1. _The Birth of Jesus: Luke 2:1-7_. And first a historical note: Luke 2:1-2. The words _in those days_ refer to the time which followed the birth of John the Baptist, and give the remark in Luke 1:80...
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...
(1) And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (2) (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) ...
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...
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 ALL WENT TO BE TAXED,.... Throughout Judea, Galilee, and Syria; men, women, and children; EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY; where he was born, and had any estate, and to which he belonged....
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. Ver. 3. _And all went to be taxed_] To pay a certain small sum of money in token of fidelity. I was once at a court sermon (saith Melancthon) on...
_And all went to be taxed_, (enrolled,) _every one to his city_ “When the census was made in any country, the inhabitants were obliged to attend in the cities to which they belonged, Livy, 50. 42. c....
TAXED; enrolled for taxation. HIS OWN CITY; the place where his ancestors lived....
AND ALL WENT TO "BE TAXED, EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY....
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 ...
1-7 The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law. The circumstances of his birth were very mean. Christ was born at an inn; he came int...
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Luke 2:3 So G2532 all G3956 went G4198 (G5711) registered G583 (G5745) everyone G1538 to G1519 own...
Luke 2:3. EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY, _i.e.,_ to the city of his extraction (comp. Luke 2:4). This was not the Roman custom, but was probably adopted as a measure of policy in accordance with the Jew...
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 ...
Luke 2:1 The Child and the Emperor. I. "It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." In the original meaning of these words, t...
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...
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...
EACH TO HIS OWN TOWN. Jewish and Roman customs were mixed together. The Jews registered people by Tribes and Families. Joseph was of the Family of David, and would have to register in David's town....
_A decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed There is no grand reason, you see, given why Mary and Joseph should go to Judaea._ The angel who is said to have announced the coming...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:3 Joseph’s ancestral home (OWN TOWN) was BETHLEHEM. They WENT UP... TO JUDEA, since Bethlehem (in Judea) lies on a mountain 2,654 feet (809 m) high. The references to...
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...
_And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city._ To the cities from which their respective families took their origin; as the house of David, of which Joseph and Christ were born, took theirs...
_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...
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...
Went [ε π ο ρ ε υ ο ν τ ο]. The A. V. and Rev., alike miss the graphic force of the imperfect tense, were going. The preparation and bustle and travel were in progress. To his own city. The town to wh...
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...