Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 2:13

Matthew 2:13. The Magi may have communicated their suspicions or revelation (Matthew 2:12) to Joseph, to whom as the head of the family the present revelation is made, in a dream, again.

Egypt, ‘as near, as a Roman province and independent of Herod, and much inhabited by Jews, was an easy and convenient refuge' (Alford). In Alexandria, its chief city, the Old Testament had been translated into Greek, and there the Jewish and Greek religions and systems of thought were brought into contact, resulting in the philosophy of Philo and his followers.

Until I tell thee, or, say to thee (what thou shalt do)

Will seek, more exactly, ‘is about to seek.'

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Matthew 2:13

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