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BEFORE THE FACE OF ALL PEOPLE - Whom thou hast provided for all
people, or whom thou dost design to “reveal” to all people....
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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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SIMEON. As the family enters the Temple they are met by Simeon, an
aged man whose devout life and expectation of Messiah had been
rewarded by a Divine intimation that he should live to see the Christ....
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Now--look you--there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon. This man
was good and pious. He was waiting for the comforting of Israel and
the Holy Spirit was upon him. He had received a message from the...
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JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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BEFORE. Greek. _kata._ App-104.
PEOPLE. the peoples....
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Simeon and the Nunc Dimittis
25. _a man … whose name was Simeon_ This cannot be Rabban Shimeon
the son of Hillel (whom the Talmud is on this account supposed to pass
over almost unnoticed), because h...
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SIMEON AND THE NUNC DIMITTIS...
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VER 28. - AND BLESSED GOD, AND SAID, 29. LORD, NOW LET YOU YOUR
SERVANT DEPART IN PEACE, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD: 30. FOR MINE EYES
HAVE SEEN YOUR SALVATION, 31. WHICH YOU HAVE PREPARED BEFORE THE FACE...
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ΉΤΟΊΜΑΣΑΣ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ (G2090)
готовить....
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DISCOURSE: 1477
TESTIMONY BORNE TO JESUS IN THE TEMPLE
Luke 2:28. _Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and
said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to
thy wor...
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MINE EYES HAVE SEEN, &C.— Simeon, being well acquainted with the
prophetic writings, knew from them that the Messiah was to be the
Author of a great salvation, which, because it was planned by God,
th...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 2
Prophecies (Luke 2:22-38)
22 And when the time came for their purification according to the law
of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
23(a...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Presenting the Child to the Lord
Scripture_
Luke 2:22-40 And when the days of their purification according to the
law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem,...
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Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; Which thou
hast prepared before the face of all people;
WHICH THOU HAST PREPARED BEFORE THE FACE OF ALL PEOPLE, [ pantoon
(G3956) toon (G3588...
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25 Simeon signifies to _ hear_, and is representative of those in
Judah whose ears were open to the law of the Lord and who looked for
the fulfillment of the prophetic promises. As the years spoken of...
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ALL PEOPLE] RV 'all peoples,' i.e. all the nations of the earth....
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THE PURIFICATION AND PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE. Women after
childbirth were unclean, for a boy forty days, for a girl eighty days.
They were then bound to present an offering for Purification, viz. a...
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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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BEFORE THE FACE OF ALL PEOPLE. — Literally, _of all peoples._ The
word expresses the universality of the salvation which the next verse
contemplates in its application to the two great divisions of th...
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_Nunc dimittis_....
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πάντων τῶν λαῶν : all peoples concerned in the
salvation, at least as spectators....
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THE AGED SIMEON'S PROPHETIC BLESSING
Luke 2:25-39
Two aged watchers welcomed the King; but no one else, of all the
crowds who went and came, guessed that the Messenger of the Covenant
had suddenly c...
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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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Which thou hast prepared (p) before the face of all people;
(p) As a sign set up in a high place for all men to look upon....
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_Before the face of all people; not of Israel only, but also as a
light to be revealed to the Gentiles, the spiritual children of
Abraham: to whom also the promises were made. (Witham)_...
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CIRCUMCISION OF JESUS & HIS PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE
21-24. _“And when the eight days for circumcising Him were
fulfilled, and He was called Jesus, being called by the angel before
he was conceived...
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SIXTH NARRATIVE: CIRCUMCISION AND PRESENTATION OF JESUS, LUKE 2:21-40.
This narrative comprises 1. The circumcision of Jesus (Luke 2:21); 2.
His presentation in the temple (Luke 2:22-38); 3. A histori...
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“ _Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to
Thy word:_ 30 _For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation_, 31 _Which Thou
hast prepared before the face of all people;_ 32 _A light to l...
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(25) And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon:
and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of
Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. (26) And it was reve...
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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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31._Which thou hast prepared _By these words Simeon intimates, that
Christ had been divinely appointed, that all nations might enjoy his
grace; and that he would shortly afterwards be placed in an ele...
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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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WHICH THOU HAST PREPARED,.... In his eternal purposes and decrees,
having chosen and foreordained Christ, and appointed him to be his
salvation, to the ends of the earth; in his counsel and covenant o...
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Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
Ver. 31. _Before the face of all the people_] As a banner displayed,
as a beacon on a hill, or as the sun in heaven, to be beheld of all;
as th...
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_Behold there was a man_, &c. There was now in Jerusalem one Simeon,
venerable on account of his age, piety, and virtue. For, _he was just
and devout_ Righteous toward his fellow-creatures, and holy t...
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WHICH THOU HAST PREPARED BEFORE THE FACE OF ALL PEOPLE,...
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The coming of Simeon:...
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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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25-35 The same Spirit that provided for the support of Simeon's hope,
provided for his joy. Those who would see Christ must go to his
temple. Here is a confession of his faith, that this Child in his...
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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 2:29...
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Luke 2:31 Which G3739 prepared G2090 (G5656) before G2596 face G4383
all G3956 peoples G2992...
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“Now let your servant depart, Lord,
According to your word, in peace,
For my eyes have seen your salvation,
Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples,
A light for revelation to the Ge...
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JESUS IS CIRCUMCISED AND PRESENTED AT THE TEMPLE AND IS BLESSED BY
SIMON WHO PROPHESIES OVER HIM (2:21-35).
The purification of Mary and Jesus from the ritual defilement of child
birth was necessary d...
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The fulfilment of the legal requirements respecting the child Jesus:
His circumcision and naming on the eighth day (Luke 2:21), as one of
the Jewish people, and the redemption from the temple service...
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OF ALL THE PEOPLES
(παντων των λαων). Not merely Jews. Another illustration
of the universality of Luke's Gospel seen already in Luke 1:70 in the
hymn of Zacharias. The second strophe of the song a...
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Luke 2:21. _And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising
of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the
angel before he was conceived in the womb._
Although the old...
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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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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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_Whose name was Simeon_
READINESS FOR GOD’S WILL
“Some years ago,” says a lady, “I made the acquaintance of an
old peasant in a little German village, where I for some time resided.
He was called Go...
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_Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace_
NUNC DIMITTIS
I. Let us start with this great general principle which is full of
comfort that EVERY BELIEVER MAY BE ASSURED OF ULTIMATELY DEPARTI...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 2:30 ALL PEOPLES. Both Israel and the Gentiles.
⇐ ⇔...
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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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Observe here how God joins and couples in Christ the humble with the
sublime, the human with the divine, the poison with the antidote, to
show that in Him human nature was joined to the Divine Majesty...
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_Which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people._ That all the
nations of the Gentiles may draw salvation from Christ the Saviour.
God has not hidden Christ in a corner of Judæa, but has set H...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 2:21. THE CHILD.—The best MSS. read “Him.”
Luke 2:22. HER PURIFICATION.—The true reading is, “_their_
purification” (R.V.). The mother was ceremonially unclean by
child-birth, t...
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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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Isaiah 42:10; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 62:1; Isaiah 62:2;...
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Of all people (pantwn twn law n). The noun is plural, the peoples, and
refers equally to the Gentiles. See Introduction, on the universality
of Luke's Gospel. Wyc., all peoples; and so Rev....
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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...