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Verse Matthew 2:20. _THEY ARE DEAD_] Both Herod and Antipater his
son; though some think the plural is here used for the singular, and
that the death of Herod alone is here intended. But as Herod's s...
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THEY ARE DEAD WHO SOUGHT ... - This either refers to Herod alone, as
is not uncommon, using the plural number for the singular; or it may
refer to Herod and his son Antipater. He was of the same cruel...
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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...
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THE SETTLEMENT AT NAZARETH. By Herod's will Archelaus (p. 609) held
the title of King till the Emperor Augustus forbade it. In Galilee,
another of Herod's sons, Antipas (p. 609), was tetrarch. There i...
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ARISE... GO INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
Notice that Joseph is not required to return to Bethlehem or to Judea,
but simply to the land of Israel. As he advances upon his journey he
will be informed where...
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE KING (Matthew 2:1-2)...
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When Herod died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to
Joseph in Egypt. "Rise, he said, "and take the little child and his
mother, and go into the land of Israel. For those who seek the...
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THEY. Note the Figure of speech _Heterosis_ (of Number), App-6, by
which the plural is put for the singular.: i.e. Herod.
LIFE. the soul. Greek. _e psuche._...
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The Return from Egypt
20. _they_ Plural by a euphemism, the reference being to Herod alone....
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ΟἹ ΖΗΤΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ. Plural used sometimes where there is no
need or no wish to individualise. Others however joined Herod in his
design to slay the young child; but with the death of Herod the whole
plot w...
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THE RETURN FROM EGYPT...
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VER 19. BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD
APPEARETH IN A DREAM TO JOSEPH IN EGYPT, 20. SAYING, "ARISE, AND TAKE
THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND GO INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL; FOR...
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_THE CHRIST RETURNED OUT OF EGYPT MATTHEW 2:19-23:_ Joseph did just as
God said. He stayed in Egypt until he had a word from God._ _ After
the death of King Herod Joseph was told to take the child and...
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ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ, _см._ Matthew 2:17.
ΠΟΡΕΎΟΥPRAES. _imper. med. (dep.), см._ Matthew 2:8.
ΤΕΘΝΉΚΑΣΙΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G2374)
умирать; perf. быть мертвым,
ΓΆΡ ...
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WHO SOUGHT THE YOUNG CHILD'S LIFE— Greek. _Who sought the soul;_ a
Hebraism, of which our version gives the sense. See 1 Kings 10:14.
Exodus 4:19 to which last passage the angel seems to allude. It is...
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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...
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Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into
the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's
life.
SAYING, ARISE, AND TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER...
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18 Compare Jer_31:15.
18 The name “Rama” was a common one for a site on a hill. There
was probably such a place near Bethlehem beside the tomb of Rachel,
who died there in sorrow (Gen_35:19-20). Ther...
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2:20 sought (b-21) Lit. the seekers of.' The article and participle
are used as a noun, characterizing the persons....
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RETURN TO PALESTINE. SETTLEMENT AT NAZARETH. It is implied that Joseph
had settled at Bethlehem and intended to remain there as the most
suitable place for bringing up the future Messiah. But God judg...
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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...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 2
WISE MEN VISIT JESUS 2:1-12
V1 Jesus was born in the town called Bethlehem. This was in Judea
district. At this time, Herod was th...
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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...
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Ἐγερθεὶς … Ἰσραήλ : it is expressed in the same
terms as those of the message directing flight to Egypt, except of
course that the land is different, and the order not _flee_ but
_return_. “Arise, tak...
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_Joseph's return_. Τελευτήσαντος δὲ τ. Ἡρ : Herod
died in 750 U. C. in his 70th year, at Jericho, of a horrible
loathsome disease, rotten in body as in soul, altogether an
unwholesome man (_vide_ Jose...
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_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...
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“OUT OF EGYPT DID I CALL MY SON”
Matthew 2:16-23
The death of those little children was very pathetic. From the first
it seemed as though our Lord's advent would bring not peace, but the
sword. Their...
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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...
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THE HOLY FAMILY RETURN FROM EGYPT
19-23, & Luke 2:39-40. _“And Herod having died.”_ We do not know
how long they remained in Egypt, but evidently the period was brief.
Scarcely has the wail of the sla...
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And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a
Nazarene.
The most interesting of all subjects, is to eye CHRIST as t...
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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...
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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...
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SAYING, ARISE, AND TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER,.... Joseph
strictly observed and obeyed the divine command of the angel, who had
ordered him to continue in Egypt, till he brought him word what...
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Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into
the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's
life.
Ver. 20. _For they are dead which sought the young child...
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_They are dead which sought the young child's life_ It has been
conjectured by some, that Antipater, the son of Herod, who died but
five days before his father, might also be referred to in these word...
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saying, Arise, and take the young Child and His mother, and go into
the land of Israel; for they are dead which sought the young Child's
life.
Herod died at Jericho in the year 750 after the founding...
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The evangelist now returns to the story of the Savior:...
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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...
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19-23 Egypt may serve to sojourn in, or take shelter in, for awhile,
but not to abide in. Christ was sent to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel, to them he must return. Did we but look upon the wo...
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Ver. 19,20. That is, as some say, within three or four months, for
Herod, they say, no longer outlived this bloody act; and if we may
believe historians, he was in his death made a dreadful example of...
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Cyprian Epistle LXVIII
But it is no wonder, since his brethren said of Joseph, "Behold, this
dreamer cometh; come now therefore, let us slay him."[24]...
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Matthew 2:20 saying G3004 (G5723) Arise G1453 (G5685) take G3880
(G5628) Child G3813 and G2532 His...
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“Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land
of Israel, for they are dead who sought the young child's life.”
Joseph is told to arise and take the young child, with His mother...
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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...
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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...
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FOR THEY ARE DEAD
(τεθνηκασιν). Only Herod had sought to kill the young child,
but it is a general statement of a particular fact as is common with
people who say: "They say." The idiom may be sugg...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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GET UP... GO BACK. Joseph is not told to return to Bethlehem or to
Judea, just to the land of Israel. THOSE WHO TRIED TO KILL THE CHILD.
"Those" implies more than one. Five days before his death, Hero...
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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...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 2:22. ARCHELAUS.—Succeeded to Judæa, Samaria and Idumea,
but Augustus refused him the title of king till it should be seen how
he conducted himself, giving him only the title...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 11:21; 1 Kings 11:40; 1 Kings 12:1; Exodus 4:19; Matthew 2:13