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# Lu 1:55
\\To Abraham.\\ See
# Ge 12:1-3 13:14-17 15:5
\\And to his seed.\\ The seed promised to Abraham was to be a
blessing to the whole world. Compare the hymn of Hannah.
# 1Sa 2:1
(PNT 227)
01808
# Lu 1:59
\\On the eighth day.\\ On the eighth day male Jewish children
were circumcised and named.
# Ge 17:12
The kinsmen present called the child after his father's name, a
common Jewish custom, but Elizabeth protested that his name
should be John, that given by the angel. The matter was referred
to the father.
(PNT 227)
01812
# Lu 1:63
\\Asked for a writing tablet.\\ Because his tongue had not
yet been loosed.
(PNT 227)
01814
# Lu 1:65
\\Fear came on all.\\ On account of so many marvels.
(PNT 227)
01816
# Lu 1:67
\\Zacharias . . . prophesied.\\ As soon as his tongue was
loosed it was employed to praise the Lord. All inspired
utterances are called prophesying, but in the present case there
was clearly inspired prediction. In the OT spirit the kingdom of
Christ in the future is described in general terms.
(PNT 227)
01818
# Lu 1:69
\\An horn of salvation.\\ An allusion to the Saviour. The horn
was a symbol of power.
(PNT 227)
01819
# Lu 1:70
\\As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets.\\ "Of him
have all the prophets borne witness." "The testimony of Jesus is
the spirit of prophecy." "The whole volume of Scripture did
prophesy of him. He was the sum and scope of all their
predictions. He was Abraham's promised seed, Abraham's Isaac,
Jacob's Shiloh, Moses' Great Prophet, Esaias' Immanuel,
Ezekiel's Shepherd, Daniel's Holy One, Zechariah's Branch,
Malachi's Angel; all of them predictions to foretell his coming.
All their types and ceremonies pointed at him. He was Abel's
Sacrifice, Noah's Dove, Abraham's First Fruits, Aaron's Rod, the
Israelites' Rock, the Patriarchs' Manna, David's Tabernacle,
Solomon's Temple; all these prefigured his incarnation. They
were the folds and swathing of the this babe Jesus."--Bishop
Brownrig.
(PNT 227-228)
01820
# Lu 1:71
\\From our enemies.\\ The priest is, at the same time the
patriot in the best sense of the term, deeply moved by the sight
of Roman tyranny.
(PNT 228)
01822
# Lu 1:73
\\The oath.\\ This oath is recorded in
# Ge 22:16-17:
It was an oath in which God swore by himself, because he could
swear by no greater, that he would surely bless Abraham and his
posterity;
# Heb 6:13,14
that promise was now to be entirely fulfilled by the coming of
the Messiah.
(PNT 228)
01825
# Lu 1:76
\\Thou, child.\\ The babe, John, before him.
\\The Highest.\\ "The Most High" is an epithet in Scripture
only of the supreme God.
(PNT 228)
01826
# Lu 1:77
\\By the remission of their sins.\\ The remainder of the
sentence embodies the gospel in brief. It promises
(1) salvation,
(2) not merely political but spiritual. A remission of, and
redemption from sin,
(3) indicates the cause--the divine mercy (compare Joh 3:16; Eph
2:4-8), and
# Joh 3:16 Eph 2:4-8
(4) promises the result, "like to eyes in darkness, and peace to
feet straying in paths of sorrow and perplexity."
(PNT 228)
01827
# Lu 1:78
\\The dayspring.\\ Christ is the "morning light," the "rising
sun."
# Mal 4:2
The gospel brings light with it.
# Joh 3:19
(PNT 228)
01829
# Lu 1:80
\\The child . . . was in the deserts.\\ In the wilderness of
Judea where he could have ample opportunity for communion with
God.
(PNT 228)
01830
# Lu 2:1
SUMMARY OF LUKE 2
\\The Birth of Jesus\\
The Decree of Augustus Caesar
The Journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem
The Babe in the Manger
The Shepherds and the Song of the Angels
The Circumcision of the Child
The Child in the Temple
The Prophecy of Simeon
The Prophecy of Anna
The Child at Nazareth
Jesus with the Doctors
My Father's Business
\\Went out a decree from Caesar Augustus.\\ Augustus Caesar,
the nephew and heir of Julius Caesar, the first of the Roman
emperors, was now the ruler of the civilized world. Though Judea
was ruled by Herod as king, he was dependent upon and the
servant of Augustus Caesar.
\\That all the world.\\ The Roman empire which embraced all
the world then known to civilization; all southern and western
Europe, western Asia and northern Africa.
\\Should be taxed.\\ A census was to be taken as a
preliminary to a poll tax in the provinces.
(PNT 228-229)
01831
# Lu 2:2
\\This taxing was first made,\\ etc. This statement has
caused some difficulty. Luke seems to affirm that the enrolment
took place the year Jesus was born, but while Cyrenius was
governor of Syria. Now Cyrenius was governor of Syria from A.D.
6 to A.D. 11. There are two ways of settling the apparent
difficulty:
(1) Augustus Caesar, incensed at Herod, ordered an enrolment
for taxation of the Jews the year of the birth of Jesus. It
was carried out in all probability by Cyrenius. The
intercession of Herod's minister, Nicolas, averted the
displeasure of Augustus and the taxation did not take place
until Cyrenius was governor of Syria, after Archelaus, son
of Herod, was deposed. These facts we learn from Josephus,
and they remove the apparent discrepancy. But
(2) A. W. Zumpt, of Berlin, followed by Alford and Schaff, make
it highly probable that Cyrenius was governor of Syria
twice, the first time from B.C. 4 to B.C. 1. I have not
space for the argument which seems conclusive. But in B.C. 4
Jesus was born. Ancient writers, Christians as well as pagan
opposers, state that Jesus was born while Cyrenius was
governor of Syria.
(PNT 229)
01832
# Lu 2:3
\\Every one into his own city.\\ It was the Jewish custom to
enrol by tribes and families. Joseph was of the family of
David, and would have to be enrolled where the family had its
landed inheritance.
(PNT 229)
01833
# Lu 2:4
\\Joseph also went up from Galilee.\\ How long he had been
living in Galilee is unknown.
\\Bethlehem.\\ The city of David, and of David's family.
(PNT 229)
01834
# Lu 2:5
\\To be taxed with Mary.\\ Women had to be enrolled also and
were subject to the poll tax. Mary was of the line of David, and
hence would also have to go to Bethlehem.
(PNT 229)
01835
# Lu 2:6
\\And so it was.\\ Mary and Joseph, when journeying to
Bethlehem, were probably ignorant of the fact that they were
helping to fulfil the prophecy that pointed to Bethlehem as the
birthplace of Christ.
(PNT 229)
01836
# Lu 2:7
\\Her first born son.\\ This implies that Mary was
subsequently the mother of other children.
\\Swaddling clothes.\\ A long, narrow cloth in which new-born
children were closely wrapped.
\\In a manger.\\ In the feeding trough of beasts of burden,
probably attached to the inn, where there was no room for them
among the crowds of strangers then in the city. When the Lord
stooped from Divine glory to take upon him humanity, he stooped
to its most lowly estate. An Oriental inn is thus described:
"The \\kahn\\ is usually much on the model of the Eastern house,
but of much larger extent. Four rows of apartments are so
constructed as to enclose a large yard with a well in the centre
where the cattle may be kept. The outer wall is usually of brick
upon a stone basement. The apartments are entered by the guests
from travellers' apartments was often the row or the long room of
stables, into which the floors of the apartments being a little
extended, formed a platform upon which the camels could eat."
(PNT 229)
01837
# Lu 2:8
\\There were . . . shepherds.\\ The fields around Bethlehem
have been for four thousand years the resort of shepherding.
There David had cared for his flocks.
\\Keeping watch.\\ To guard their flocks from robbers and
wild beasts, and to keep them from straying.
(PNT 230)
01838
# Lu 2:9
\\The angel of the Lord.\\ An angel announces the conception
of Jesus; a host of angels publish his birth; in his temptation
an angel strengthens him; in his agony an angel comforts him; at
his resurrection an angel rolls away the stone from the door of
the sepulchre; at his ascension the angels attend him up to
heaven; and at his second coming to judge the world he shall be
"revealed from heaven with his mighty angels."
# 2Th 1:7
(PNT 230)
01839
# Lu 2:10
\\I bring you good tidings.\\ The way to pardon and peace
with God was about to be thrown open to all mankind.
\\To all people.\\ The knowledge of God was no longer to be
confined to the Jews, but to be offered to the whole Gentile
world.
(PNT 230)
01840
# Lu 2:11
\\City of David.\\ A term applied to the village of Bethlehem
as the birthplace of the greatest among Israel's kings; David's
greater Son begins his earthly career in his ancestor's home.
Seven hundred years before the prophet had predicted the
Messiah's birth at Bethlehem.
# Mic 5:2
\\Christ the Lord.\\ The Anointed Lord, for which the nation
was so eagerly longing.
(PNT 230)
01841
# Lu 2:12
\\A sign to you.\\ The sign was not itself a miraculous one,
but the prediction of it was so. The babe, the swaddle, and the
manger were the three tokens.
(PNT 230)
01842
# Lu 2:13
\\A multitude of the heavenly host\\; i.e., angels, who are
represented as a host surrounding the throne of God.
# 1Ki 22:19 2Ch 18:18 Ps 103:21 Da 7:10 Mt 26:53 Re 19:14
\\Praising God.\\ Their praises are recorded in the next
verse.
(PNT 230)
01843
# Lu 2:14
\\Glory to God.\\ The life of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the
earth was the working out and development of the song of the
angels. It was "Glory to God" illustrated in his consecration
and death. It was "peace" in all the utterances of his lips;
peace in his Gospel. It was "good-will to man"; for every
thought, word and act of that blessed life was the translation
of God's infinite love into forms visible to the mortal eyes
that saw him.
(PNT 230)
01845
# Lu 2:16
\\Came with haste.\\ Mark the prompt obedience to the
heavenly vision displayed by the shepherds. We see in them no
doubts, or questionings, or hesitations.
(PNT 230)
01848
# Lu 2:19
\\Mary kept all these things.\\ A mother forgets none of
those things which occur respecting her children.
(PNT 231)