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01850
 # Lu 2:21
    \\When eight days were accomplished for circumcising him.\\
    See note on "Lu 1:59"
 According to the law Jesus was circumcised the eight day. Born
 under the law of Moses, he kept it, in all things blameless,
 until "the handwriting of ordinances was nailed to the cross."
 # Col 2:14
 He was circumcised because it was then God's law, to be obeyed
 until it was set aside. His example does not warrant infant
 baptism, because he was afterwards baptized when a man, but does
 show that the law of God is to be observed, whatever it may be.
 There is no ground for the assertion that baptism came in the
 place of circumcision. Note,
 (1) circumcised Jews were also baptized;
 (2) only males were circumcised, while both sexes are baptized;
 (3) there is no scriptural ground for the statement that one
     rite takes the place of another.
    \\His name was called JESUS.\\ The name was given on the
 eighth day, according to Jewish custom, which the angel had
 commanded.
 (PNT 231)
01851
 # Lu 2:22
    \\The days of her purification.\\ See
 # Le 12:4-6
 These "days" were a period of thirty-three days after the
 circumcision of a male child. He was then to be presented in the
 temple by the parents.
 (PNT 231)
01852
 # Lu 2:23
    \\Every male . . . shall be called holy.\\ That is, devoted
 to the Lord. See
 # Ex 13:12
 All the first-born were to be presented to the Lord and redeemed
 by an offering.
 # Nu 18:15
 (PNT 231)
01853
 # Lu 2:24
    \\To offer a sacrifice.\\ The law required a lamb for a burnt
 offering and a pigeon or turtle-dove for a sin offering, but in
 the case of the poor one of these birds might be substituted for
 the lamb, "and the priest shall made atonement for her and she
 shall be clean."
 # Le 12:6-8
 The fact that Joseph and Mary brought a pair of birds instead of
 a lamb shows that they were very poor. The gifts of the wise men
 were after this.
 (PNT 231)
01854
 # Lu 2:25
    \\Simeon.\\ The first prophet to declare that Christ had
 come.
    \\Waiting for the consolation of Israel.\\ The promised
 Messiah.
    \\The Holy Spirit was upon him.\\ To give him supernatural
 knowledge. It was revealed to him that he should see Christ.
 (PNT 231)
01856
 # Lu 2:27
    \\Came by the Spirit into the temple.\\ Directed by and
 filled with the Spirit.
    \\After the custom of the law.\\ Offered the required
 sacrifices. The law was strictly observed, because Jesus was
 "born under the law."
 # Ga 4:4
 (PNT 232)
01857
 # Lu 2:28
    \\And said.\\ The utterances of Elizabeth, Mary and Simeon
 are consecutive. Each begins where the other ends. Mary sings
 her own born Messiah, Zacharias celebrates the triumph of
 Israel, and Simeon announces the hopes of the Gentiles. But,
 besides this holding forth the Messiah as a Saviour for Gentile
 as well as Jew, what is remarkable is that he announces in Jesus
 a suffering Messiah as well as a glorious.--Whedon.
 (PNT 232)
01861
 # Lu 2:32
    \\A light to enlighten the Gentiles.\\ Scholars have said
 that in the work of opening the gates of Christianity to the
 Gentiles, Stephen was the forerunner of Paul. Might it not be
 said that Simeon was the forerunner of Stephen, and the Gentile
 Luke the historian of both? Yet the true doctrine on the subject
 is explicitly and repeatedly declared not only here, but in the
 prophecies of the OT. Compare
 # Isa 9:2 40:1 49:6
 (PNT 232)
01862
 # Lu 2:33
    \\Marvelled.\\ That Simeon should know the child.
 (PNT 232)
01863
 # Lu 2:34
    \\Set for the fall and rising again of many.\\ Christ brought
 downfall to the hopes of those who expected a temporal prince
 and a political millennium, and ruin to those whose desire for
 the kingdom of God was ambition for place and power in it, as
 the Pharisees. He brought rising to those who were willing that
 God should overthrow their plans and ambitions, and who accepted
 from him the grander gift of a universal kingdom, prepared for
 all people. The rejection of him brought ruin to the Jews; the
 acceptance of him brought life eternal.
 (PNT 232)
01864
 # Lu 2:35
    \\A sword shall pierce through thy own soul.\\ He announces
 that the blessed mother should also be a sorrowing mother.
 Though she was exulted in the thought that her son should sit on
 the throne of David, she learns now that the calumny will make
 him its sign, and a sword shall pierce her soul.
    \\That the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.\\ Christ
 brings to light by bringing into activity the thoughts of the
 heart. The result of preaching Christ is always to awaken
 opposition or love and obedience.
 (PNT 232)
01865
 # Lu 2:36
    \\One Anna, a prophetess.\\ An aged saint who spoke by
 inspiration.
    \\Daughter of Phanuel.\\ Evidently a man well known in that
 day.
    \\Of the tribe of Asher.\\ One of the twelve tribes occupying
 the strip of seacoast from Sidon to Carmel.
 (PNT 233)
01866
 # Lu 2:37
    \\A widow of about eighty four years.\\ She had passed seven
 years with a husband when young and then remained a widow until,
 at this time, she was eighty-four years old, devoting herself to
 a religious life.
    \\Departed not from the temple.\\ Probably assigned, on
 account of her saintly character, a chamber in the temple.
 (PNT 233)
01867
 # Lu 2:38
    \\Spoke of him.\\ Of the Babe, she speaking by inspiration,
 and declaring that he was the promised child.
 (PNT 233)
01868
 # Lu 2:39
    \\They returned into Galilee.\\ Luke omits the stirring
 events that lie between the visit to the temple and the return
 to Nazareth, possibly because they are so fully given by
 Matthew. See
 # Mt 2:1-23
    \\Their own city Nazareth.\\ The old home of Joseph and Mary,
 now to be the home of Jesus until he was thirty years of age; a
 mountain village in southern Galilee.
 (PNT 233)
01869
 # Lu 2:40
    \\The child grew.\\ He was a child, and a child that grew in
 heart, in intellect, in size, in grace, in favour with God. Not a
 man in child's years.
    \\Filled with wisdom.\\ The body advances in stature and the
 soul in wisdom. The divine nature revealed its own wisdom in
 proportion to the measure of the bodily growth.--Cyril. In "the
 mystery of godliness," "God manifest in the flesh,"
 # 1Ti 3:16
 one of the inscrutable things that was that the Divine man
 should become a babe, not only in body, but in mind and wisdom.
 (PNT 233)
01870
 # Lu 2:41
    \\Went to Jerusalem.\\ The law of Moses required that the
 adult males of the Jewish nation should appear before the Lord,
 at the place of his altar, three times every year--at the great
 festivals, Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. Though females
 were not required to attend, they often did from religious
 devotion.
 (PNT 233)
01871
 # Lu 2:42
    \\When he was twelve years old.\\ At the age of twelve a boy
 was called by the Jews "son of the law," and first incurred
 legal obligation. Henceforth it would be his personal duty to
 keep the law.
 (PNT 233)
01872
 # Lu 2:43
    \\Fulfilled the days.\\ The seven of the passover week.
    \\Jesus tarried behind.\\ Luke neither tells us that Jesus
 remained behind at Jerusalem intentionally, nor that Joseph and
 Mary lost sight of him through want of necessary care. A
 circumstance must here have been omitted, and we may safely
 suppose that Joseph and Mary joined their fellow-travellers in
 the persuasion that Jesus, who knew of the time and place of
 departure, was among the younger ones.
 (PNT 233)
01873
 # Lu 2:44
    \\In the company.\\ The caravans, in which the passover
 companies went, for the purpose of protection against beasts and
 robbers, must have each been large, composed of many parties,
 clans and kindreds. Jesus might easily, therefore, have not been
 missed until the end of the first day.
 (PNT 234)
01875
 # Lu 2:46
    \\In the temple.\\ Probably in one of the porches of the
 court of the women, where the schools of the rabbis were held,
 and the law regularly expounded.
    \\In the midst of the teachers.\\ The learned rabbis. Some of
 the greatest doctors of Jewish history lived about this
 period--Hillel, Rabbi Simeon and Gamaliel.
    \\Asking them questions.\\ It was the custom in Jewish
 rabbinical schools for scholars to ask questions.
 (PNT 234)
01878
 # Lu 2:49
    \\How is it that ye sought me?\\ Did ye not know that I must
 be in my Father's house? That is, in the temple, where they did
 find him. They ought to have come there at once. These words are
 the first in which he reveals his consciousness of his
 supernatural birth.
 (PNT 234)
01879
 # Lu 2:50
    \\Understood not.\\ Did not comprehend all he meant in
 speaking of his Father's house.
 (PNT 234)
01880
 # Lu 2:51
    \\He went down with them.\\ If his heart drew him to the
 temple, the voice of duty called him back to Galilee, for the
 law required obedience to parents.
 (PNT 234)
01881
 # Lu 2:52
    \\Jesus increased.\\ Jesus grew up among a people seldom and
 only contemptuously named by the ancient classics, and subjected
 at the time to the yoke of a foreign oppressor in a remote and
 conquered province of the Roman empire; in the darkest district
 of Palestine; in a little country town of proverbial
 insignificance; in poverty and manual labour; in the obscurity of
 a carpenter's shop; far away from universities, academies,
 libraries, and literary or polished society; without any help,
 as far as we know, except the parental care, the daily wonders
 of nature, the OT Scriptures, the weekly Sabbath service of the
 synagogue at Nazareth,
 # 4:16
 the annual festivities in the temple of Jerusalem,
 # 2:42
 and the secret intercourse of his soul with God, his heavenly
 Father.--Schaff.
 (PNT 234-235)
01882
 # Lu 3:1
  SUMMARY OF LUKE 3
  \\Jesus Anointed by the Holy Spirit\\

  John's Preaching and Baptism
  John's Witness of Christ
  Herod and Herodias
  Jesus Baptized
  The Anointing and the Voice from Heaven
  The Genealogy of Christ

    \\In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.\\
 Tiberius, the second Roman emperor, was the step-son and
 successor of Augustus Caesar.
 See note on "Lu 2:1"
 Tiberius was raised to the throne A.U.C. 764 (after the founding
 of Rome), and the fifteenth year would be A.U.C. 779. Counting
 back thirty years from this, brings us to A.U.C. 749, which is
 about four years earlier than the common date of the birth of
 Jesus and before the death of Herod the king.
 See note on "Mt 2:1"
    \\Pilate being governor of Judaea.\\ Archelaus, the son of
 "Herod the king," was deposed after ten years of rule, and Judea
 made a province under the rule of a Roman governor. Pontius
 Pilate was the fifth of these.
    \\Herod being tetrarch of Galilee.\\
    See notes on "Mt 2:1"
 It was this Herod, Herod Antipas, who murdered John the Baptist.
    \\His brother Philip.\\ This was not the husband of Herodias,
 but another brother Philip.
    \\Abilene.\\ North of Palestine.
 (PNT 235)
01883
 # Lu 3:2
    \\Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests.\\ The Jews
 recognized but one high priest, who held his office for life,
 but Annas was removed from the office by the Roman governor,
 Pilate, and his son-in-law, Caiaphas, appointed in his place.
 Hence, both were called high priests at the same time.
    \\The word of God came to John.\\ He was called to begin his
 work.
 (PNT 235)
01884
 # Lu 3:3
    \\Came into all the country.\\ Compare
 # Mt 3:1-12
 see note on "Mt 3:1"
 see note on "Mt 3:2"
 see note on "Mt 3:3"
 see note on "Mt 3:4"
 see note on "Mt 3:5"
 see note on "Mt 3:6"
 see note on "Mt 3:7"
 see note on "Mt 3:8"
 see note on "Mt 3:9"
 see note on "Mt 3:10"
 see note on "Mt 3:11"
 see note on "Mt 3:12"
 see note on "Mr 1:1"
 see note on "Mr 1:2"
 see note on "Mr 1:4"
 see note on "Mr 1:5"
 see note on "Mr 1:6"
 see note on "Mr 1:7"
 (PNT 235)
01888
 # Lu 3:7
    \\O generation of vipers.\\ Spoken of the Pharisees.
 # Mt 3:7
 (PNT 235)
01891
 # Lu 3:10-11
    \\What shall we do?\\ Note,
 (1) Those that are baptized must be taught; and those who have
     baptized them are concerned, as they have opportunity, to
     teach them.
     # Mt 28:19-20
 (2) In John's answer we have his moral system. His morality
     differs from that of the Lord, inasmuch as the former lays
     more stress upon the regulation of the external conduct,
     while Jesus lays more upon that of the inner life.
 (PNT 235-236)
01893
 # Lu 3:12
    \\Tax collectors.\\ The gatherers of the Roman tax.
 (PNT 236)
01895
 # Lu 3:14
    \\And the soldiers.\\ Whether these were Jews or Romans
 cannot be ascertained. It is not improbable that, as Judea was a
 Roman province, they were Jews or Jewish proselytes in the
 service of Herod Antipas or Philip, and so were really in the
 Roman service.
 (PNT 236)