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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...
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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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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...
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JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM (Luke 2:1-7)...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2:3 roll, (e-10) As 'registered,' Hebrews 12:23 ....
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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,...
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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....
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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.) ...
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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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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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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...
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_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....
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TAXED; enrolled for taxation.
HIS OWN CITY; the place where his ancestors lived....
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AND ALL WENT TO "BE TAXED, EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY....
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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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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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SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 2:1...
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Luke 2:3 So G2532 all G3956 went G4198 (G5711) registered G583 (G5745)
everyone G1538 to G1519 own...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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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_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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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...