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Scofield's Bible Commentary

Matthew 2:15

Out of Egypt

The words quoted are in (Hosea 11:1) and the passage illustrates the truth that prophetic utterances often have a latent and deeper meaning than at first appears. Israel, nationally, was a "Song of Songs" (Song of Solomon 1:1); (Exodus 4:22), but Christ was the greater "Song of Songs" (Song of Solomon 1:1); (Romans 9:4); (Isaiah 41:8); (Isaiah 42:1); (Isaiah 52:13), where the servant-nation and the Servant-Son are both in view.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Matthew 2:15. _OUT OF EGYPT HAVE I CALLED MY SON._] This is quoted from Hosea 11:1, where the deliverance of Israel, and that only, is referred to. But as that deliverance was extraordinary, it...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE KING WORSHIPPED BY GENTILES; Jerusalem in Ignorance of Him; the Child Persecuted. 1. The Visit of the Wise Men.(Matthew 2:1 .) 2. The Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13 .) 3. The Return from Eg...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. While Mt. says Jesus was born before Herod's death (how long before he does not say), Lk. suggests, by his reference to Quirinius, that it was...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED,... OUT OF EGYPT HAVE. CALLED MY SON. The prophecy here quoted is found in Hosea 11:1. It was stated of the Israel which was called out of Egypt and who is spoken of as. son...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    When they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph. "Rise, he said, "and take the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; fo...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DEATH. end. Greek. _teleute._ Occurs only here. THAT. in order that. SPOKEN. As well as written. Compare Matthew 2:5 and Matthew 2:23. OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ See App-104. OUT OF EGYPT, &C. Quoted f...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _until the death of Herod_ According to the chronology adopted above this would be for a space of less than two years. _that it might be fulfilled_ See note on ch. Matthew 1:22. _Out of Egypt have I...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΚΥΡΊΟΥ for τοῦ κυρίου. See ch. Matthew 1:22. 15. ἝΩΣ ΤΗ͂Σ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΗ͂Σ ἩΡΏΔΟΥ. According to the chronology adopted above this would be for a space of less than two years. ἼΝΑ ΠΛΗΡΩΘΗ͂Ι. See note on ch....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 13. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise, and take the young Child and His mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE CHRIST IS TAKEN INTO EGYPT MATTHEW 2:13-15:_ The wise men “being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod departed into their own country another way.” (Matthew 2:12) Instead...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΗΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΊΝ (G2443) с _conj._ чтобы, дабы (для выражения цели), ΠΛΗΡΩΘΉ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) исполнять. Об изысканиях относительно этого слова в его...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED, &C.— _So that what the Lord had spoken by the prophet was verified._ Campbell. The reader will remember the general observation which has been made on Matthew 1:22 respecti...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SECTION 4. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT AND RETURN TEXT: 2:13-23 13. Now when they were departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and his...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:15 Lord (c-20) See Note, ch. 1.20. saying, (l-24) Hosea 11:1 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNTIL THE DEATH OF HEROD] Herod died probably 4 b.c., possibly 3 b.c., so that the sojourn in Egypt was short, perhaps only a few months. OUT OF EGYPT] Hosea 11:1. It is impossible that the flight int...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WISE MEN 1-12. The star in the east and the visit of the Magi (peculiar to St. Matthew). The incident fits well into secular history. About the time when the star appeared (7 or 6 b.c.), Herod the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FLIGHT INTO EGYPT (peculiar to St. Matthew). Egypt was the only place of refuge easily reached from Bethlehem. It was outside the dominions of Herod, under Roman government, and contained a population...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    UNTIL THE DEATH OF HEROD. — The uncertainty which hangs over the exact date of the Nativity hinders us from arriving at any precise statement as to the interval thus described. As the death of Herod t...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 2 His Reception - Matthew 2:1 THIS one chapter contains all that St. Matthew records of the Infancy. St. Mark and St. John tell us nothing, and St. Luke very little. This singular reticence h...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    καὶ ἧν ἐκεῖ, etc.: the stay in Egypt cannot have been long, only a few months, prohably, before the death of Herod (Nösgen). ἵνα πληρωθῇ : another prophetic reference, this time proceeding directly fr...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Flight to Egypt, massacre in Bethlehem, return to Nazareth_. These three stories have one aim. They indicate the omens which appear in beginnings _omina principiis inesse solent_ (Ovid). The fortunes...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Flight to Egypt_....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD RULES AND OVERRULES Matthew 2:9-15 The suggestion has been hazarded that “the star” was an unusual combination of three planets; but this would conflict with the disappearance and reappearance of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The Kingdom was not ready for the King, so a reception for Him was not arranged and organized by those who should have been waiting for Him. They were in rebellion. The King's advent was heralded by a...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Out of Egypt have I called my son. [3] St. Jerome understands these words to be taken out of the prophet Osee, (Chap. xi. 2.) and granted they might be literally spoken of the people Israel: yet as th...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    SOJOURN IN EGYPT 13-15. Now Joseph, a true, godly man, dreams. God talks to him in the stilly hours of his nightly slumber. It is a long way for Mary to ride a donkey, and carry the Babe in her lap. F...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. It is worthy observation, here all along ment...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _CALLED OUT OF EGYPT_ ‘Out of Egypt have I called My Son.’ Matthew 2:15 At first we are surprised at the use to which the Evangelist puts these words of the prophet. We turn to Hosea 2:1, and it is...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._Out of Egypt have I called my Son _Matthew says that a prediction was fulfilled. Some have thought, that the intention of the prophet was different from what is here stated, and have supposed the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Thus born, thus characterised by the angel and fulfilling the prophecies that announced the presence of Emmanuel, He is formally acknowledged King of the Jews by the Gentiles, who are guided by the wi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WAS THERE UNTIL THE DEATH OF HEROD,.... Which was in a very short time; for Eusebius i says, that immediately, in a very little time after the slaughter of the children at Bethlehem, the divine ve...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Ver. 15. _And was there till the death of He...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _When he arose_ Viz., from his bed, _he took the young child_, &c. He immediately obeyed the heavenly vision, _and departed into Egypt_ With as hasty a flight as their circumstances would allow. _And...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    OUT OF EGYPT HAVE I CALLED MY SON; originally spoken by the prophet Hosea 11:1; of the Israelitish nation as God's Son. But it was the appointment of God that in this, as in so many other things, the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Joseph again was obedient to the angel's word:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called My Son. Matthew relates the carrying out of the comma...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    The deeply interesting account of Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of her Lord, the details as to His birth in Bethlehem, the visit of the shepherds to the manger in which H...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-15 Egypt had been a house of bondage to Israel, and particularly cruel to the infants of Israel; yet it is to be a place of refuge to the holy Child Jesus. God, when he pleases, can make the worst...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Ver. 14,15. True faith, or assent to a Divine revelation, always produces obedience to the precept of it. Thus it did in the wise men, thus in Joseph. Thus every where in holy writ. By which we may le...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Of what Lord he does himself interpret: "That it may be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, Out of Egypt have I called my son."[71] The Arabic G...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 2:15 and G2532 was G2258 (G5713) there G1563 until G2193 death G5054 Herod G2264 that G2443 fulfilled...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JESUS IS DRIVEN INTO EXILE AND FINALLY RETURNS TO LOWLY NAZARETH (2:12-23). As a result of a warning dream the Magi did not return to Herod but slipped out of the country ‘another way', while Joseph s...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    a ‘And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod.' Obediently Joseph did as he was told, and taking the young child and...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt did I call my son.' And all this was to be seen as a ‘filling full' of God's purposes for Israel. Mat...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    CHRONOLOGY. We place the flight into Egypt a _fter_ the presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-39). The latter took place on the fortieth day, and the interval which this allows is too brief for the ev...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 2:15. THE PROPHET. Hosea (Matthew 11:1). A prophecy referring first to the children of Israel, then typical of Christ. Alford: ‘It seems to have been a settled axiom of interpretation (which h...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    UNTIL THE DEATH OF HEROD (εως της τελευτης Hηρωιδου). The Magi had been warned in a dream not to report to Herod and now Joseph was warned in a dream to take Mary and the child along (μελλε ζητειν τ...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Matthew 2:15 I. These words, spoken by the prophet Hosea, were not accommodated to Christ, but were most truly fulfilled in Him. They had thus a double fulfilment, the second more glorious than the fi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 2:1. _Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,_ Probably from that Assyria which is joined with Is...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Visit of the Magi, flight into Egypt, Herod's slaughter of the innocents. Return of Joseph and Mary to Nazareth. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Herod, chief priests, scribes, wise me...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Matthew 2:1. _Jesus was born in Bethlehem,_ as is illustrated in Micah 5:2. _In the days of Herod the king,_ the son of Antipater, and father of Archelaus, who succeeded him on the throne. Herod, who...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    TO MAKE COME TRUE. (Hosea 11:1) The life and times of Israel were a prophesy of the Messiah. The son _Israel_ was called out of Egypt in the Exodus. The Son _Jesus_ was to be called out of Egypt also....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 2:15 FULFILL. The prophet Hosea recounted how God had faithfully brought Israel, God’s “son,” out of Egypt in the exodus (Hosea 2:15). Matthew cites this

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 2 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Juda in the days of king Herod. It is better to read here in the Greek _in Bethlehem-Juda_. Juda means the tribe of Judah, to which, after the schism...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 2:13. EGYPT.—At all times the readiest place of refuge for the Israelites, whether from famine or from political oppression. In Alexandria the Jews numbered a fifth of the po...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JESUS THE CHRIST BY HIS EARLY HISTORY answering to the word of God by the prophets. This is shown by four particulars, for each of which a corresponding prophecy is adduced. (1) The place...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter Two Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king (Matthew 2:1), This is Herod the Great, that little short monster. He was a little over four feet tall, and as...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 1:16; Acts 12:1; Acts 12:23; Acts 12:24; Exodus 4:22;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    That it might be fulfilled — That is, whereby was fulfilled. The original word frequently signifies, not the design of an action, but barely the consequence or event of it. Which was spoken of the Lor...

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