The Jewish historian Josephus, for instance, does not mention it. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? Why was Joseph afraid to go where Archelaus She did not understand. The other legend is a child's story, but it is very lovely. Jeremiah was picturing the people of Jerusalem being led away in exile. What brought out the unbelief of Israel so distressingly was this God would have a due testimony to such a Messiah; and if the Jews were unready, He would gather from the very ends of the earth some hearts to welcome Jesus Jesus-Jehovah, the Messiah of Israel. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. (iii) Jesus was learning what it was like to be a working man. 2:3-9 When Herod the king heard or this he was disturbed, and so was all Jerusalem with him. In their sad way to an alien land they pass Ramah, and Ramah was the place where Rachel lay buried ( 1 Samuel 10:2); and Jeremiah pictures Rachel weeping, even in the tomb, for the fate that had befallen the people. But a lad had only to climb the hills for half tile world to be at his door. (Matthew 3:1-17) The Spirit of God carries us over a long interval, and the voice of John is heard proclaiming, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." And because he had been warned in a dream, he departed for the region of Galilee. Second, Carr notes that Macaulay, in his history, points out that Evelyn, the famous diarist, who was a most assiduous and voluminous recorder of contemporary events, never mentions the massacre of Glencoe. 4), his kingdom was divided between his three sons, Herod Antipas, Archelaus and Philip. which massacred 3,000 Jews in and around the temple. In some accounts, he could be a son of Aegyptus either by Eurryroe, daughter of the river-god Nilus, [2] or Isaie, daughter of King Agenor of Tyre. It was the name of man's scorn; for Nazareth was the most despised place in that despised land of Galilee. This never could be consistent with the glory of the person who was there. It might be the feeblest recognition of God and man; it might be but a remnant of Israelites; but, at least, they owned the truth about themselves; and Jesus was with them in owning the ruin fully, and felt it all. They used to say, "It's safer to be Herod's pig than to be his son," because he was always paranoid that his sons were trying to take over his throne. Of uncertain derivation; a dream. They have seen in each gift something which specially matched some characteristic of Jesus and his work. And after being warned in a dream, he went away to the district of Galilee. Caspar was young and beardless, and ruddy in countenance, and it was he who brought the gift of frankincense. They tried to overthrow the Persians and substitute the power of the Medes. It was the road which in the twentieth century Allenby was to take. Accordingly, I think it was owing to special considerations of this sort that Matthew was led to reserve for us the great lesson, that our Lord had passed through the entire temptation not only the forty days, but even that which crowned them at the close; and that only when an open blow was struck at the divine glory did His soul at once resent it with the words, "Get thee hence, Satan." "Look," he said, "at the spider's web there. The New Testament cannot change or reinterpret what this verse means in that context, nor does it try to do so. (Antipas received Galilee and Perea, which runs along the Jordan River It is probable that the blessed Jesus was at this time not a year old; yet Herod took in all the infants under two years old, that he might be sure not to miss of his prey. As it stands now, the passage wears this most awkward appearance, that Satan, though commanded to depart, lingers on. Not so very much later than this Suetonius could write, "There had spread over all the Orient an old and established belief, that it was fated at that time for men coming from Judaea to rule the world" (Suetonius: Life of Vespasian, 4: 5). The verse is quoted as an application. Thus, if you take Ezra, for instance, giving his own genealogy as a priest, you find that he omits not three links only in a chain, but seven. Clearly, even now that Herod was dead, it was still unsafe to return to Judaea with the savage and reckless Archelaus on the throne. When we read a passage like this we must remember that, though it seems strange and unconvincing to us, it would appeal to those Jews for whom Matthew was writing. Now the name Mesori means the birth of a prince, and to those ancient astrologers such a star would undoubtedly mean the birth of some great king. This is the more remarkable, because in the gospel of Luke we have another scene, where we see that same Jesus, truly an infant of days, in the hands of an aged one with far more divine intelligence than these Eastern sages could boast. Here, at the very starting-point, the Holy Ghost points out the divine and eternal glory of Him who deigns to come as the Messiah. It was lamentation and mourning, and great mourning; all little enough to express the sense they had of this aggravated calamity. But Herod was doubly disturbed. (Luke 19:12, 19:14, 19:27). Jesus Is Born - a Video Devotional. Accordingly, his own life was the witness of what he felt morally of Israel's then state. In the Greek language, as in English, there is only one letter difference between the words sow (hyos) and son (hyios)." This was being overmuch wicked,Ecclesiastes 7:17. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream. The demeanor of the questioning appeared to turn at some point, and the crowd began to call for the punishment of those of Herod's people who ordered the death of the two teachers and the 40 youths. Archelaus, and was right to fear the possibility of a man like him hearing that the boy born to be the Having been warned in a dream,(A) he withdrew to the district of Galilee,(B) 23and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. But for the church of Rome to put the Holy Innocents, as they call them, into their calendar, and observe a day in memory of them, while they have so often, by their barbarous massacres, justified, and even out--one Herod, is but to do as their predecessors did, who built the tombs of the prophets, while they themselves filled up the same measure. There was Edomite blood in his veins. Here is, I. Herod's resentment of the departure of the wise men. Herod Archelaus was the older brother of Herod Antipas, and both were sons born to King Herod and Malthace, a Samaritan woman who was one of his ten wives. Archelaus never properly bore the title of king, ( Matthew 2:22) but only that of ethnarch.In the tenth year of his reign, or the ninth . Once again the cavalcade of the caravans and their silks and spices would be continually on it, and on it also the Roman legions clanked out to the frontiers. (verses Matthew 7:1-4.) The ancient writers liked puns and plays on words. This sorrow was so great, that they would not be comforted. Matthew 2 ~ When he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee I'm the King of the Jews. The gospels are short; the materials used are not numerous; but what shall we say of the depths of grace that are there disclosed? But light is another thing Hence we hear, in the 14th verse, "Ye are the light of the world." turned aside (Matthew 2:22) from Judea, Compare the notes at Isaiah 10:29. How Herod Got His Power Herod "the Great" ruled as king of the Jews under Roman authority for thirty-three years, from 37-4 BC. To depart from the historical order, more particularly when one had previously given them that order, is what never would be thought of, unless there were some mighty preponderant reason in the mind of him who did so. It was God Himself, even the Son of the Highest that was there, and his soul bowed before God. Mat Mt). One writer estimated that this purge would have affected only about 20 children. The Lord Jesus thence goes forth into another scene the wilderness to be tempted of the devil; and this, mark, now that He is thus publicly owned by the Father, and the Holy Ghost had descended on Him. For those who seek the little child's life are dead." Oh, what a lesson, even from these dark Gentiles, to self-complacent Christendom in East or West! Blessed be God, there is no occasion of grief in this world, no, not that which is supplied by sin itself, that will justify us in refusing to be comforted! Therefore Matthews purpose was not simply to give the reader information about Jesus childhood. The wise men, I am sorry, did not come to the manger, but actually arrived later on, perhaps a year or as much as two years later. But we must look upon this murder of the infants under another character: it was their martyrdom. They have said it was a conjunction of planets, and they have come up with many different speculations as to what astronomically constituted the star of Bethlehem. (i) Gold is the gift for a king. Jeremiah pictured the scene as Rachel weeping for her children. Meanwhile, in a country to the east, men known as Magi (people who study the stars) had worked out that a new king was born in Judea and they came to Jerusalem looking for him (Matthew 2:1-2). The one was in His life, when He taught His own; the other was in His death, when He bore the iniquities of many. And besides, if we look further into this prophecy, we shall find that the bitter weeping in Ramah was but a prologue to the greatest joy, for it follows, Thy work shall be rewarded, and there is hope in thy end. Proverbs 4:13 The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) 13 Hold on to instruction; don't let go. Not only does God deign to meet the Jew with these proofs from prophecy, miracle, life, and doctrine, but He begins with what a Jew would and must demand the question of genealogy. Would he have put forward the name of Thamar in such a connection? We shall dwell a little more upon the three temptations, if the Lord will, as to their intrinsic moral import, when we come to the consideration of Luke. Rather he stressed the reception that the Messiah received having entered the world. Jesus was brought up in a town where the ends of the earth passed the foot of the hilltop. The Christian is the man who has ceased to do what he likes, and has dedicated his life to do as Christ likes. It was not a mere kingdom of the earth, neither was it in heaven, but it was heaven governing the earth for ever. "Rise," he said, "and take the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the little child, in order to kill him." When it was a question, at a later day, of His servant Peter, who, prompted by Satan, had fallen into human thoughts, and would have dissuaded his Master from the cross, He does say, "Get thee behind me." "It stood", notice, "over where the young child was." Thus it is evident that in this further word of the Lord we have answers to the differences already hinted at. ], Matthew evidently used Jeremiah 31:15 because it presented hope to the Israelites that Israel would return to the land even though they wept at the nations departure. As to place; He kills all the male children, not only in Bethlehem, but in all the coasts thereof, in all the villages of that city. In the years 5 to 2 B.C. In the early days eastern tradition said that there were twelve of them. In the place of this mourning. Little children have always been taken under the special protection, not only of human laws, but of human nature; yet these are sacrificed to the rage of this tyrant, under whom, as under Nero, innocence is the least security. Before we must be friends with Christ, we must submit to Christ. CHAPTER 2 The Visit of the Magi. It indicates the ability to send an email. God speaks, and it is done. It was the Road of the East. (ii) Jesus was fulfilling the duties of an eldest son. I say not that there is no evidence in the other gospels to demonstrate that He is really Jehovah and Emmanuel too, but that nowhere else have we the same fulness of proof, and the same manifest design, from the very starting point of the gospel, to proclaim the Lord Jesus as being thus a divine Messiah God with us. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee . This comes out in His very name. Without a single flaw of His own He bent down to confess what was in others; He owned in all its extent, in its reality as none did, the state of Israel, before God and man; He joined Himself with those who felt it. We have already seen that Herod was a past master in the art of assassination. King James Version. ], "Here Jesus does not, as in Matthew 2:15, recapitulate an event from Israels history. They that would not rejoice for the birth of the Son of God, are justly made to weep for the death of their own sons; for they only wondered at the tidings the shepherds brought them, but did not welcome them. As the Jewish young men were being taken into captivity, they went by the town of Ramah. The beginning and conclusion of Jesus' parable of the minas in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 19, may refer to Archelaus' journey to Rome. In His condescending love, He would lead hearts that were prepared of Him to desire the Messiah, and come from the ends of the earth to welcome Him. We may thus look for deep profit. He was the Messiah, but such He was after God's heart, not man's. It was in the Temple worship and at the Temple sacrifices that the sweet perfume of frankincense was used. It might be supposed, that no salvation could be expected from him, on whose account, as soon as he was born, infants were murdered; nay more, that it was an unfavorable and disastrous omen, that the birth of Christ kindled a stronger flame of cruelty than usually burns amidst the most inveterate wars. But now the tradition that there were three is almost universal. Our ways lie through a vale of tears. Christ instructs in righteousness according to prophecy, but He does not confine Himself to righteousness. The function of a priest is to open the way to God for men. The wise men from the east enquire after Jesus; They are directed by a star to Bethlehem, worship him, and offer their presents. It is not now taking the people out of Israel, and bringing them into a position with Himself that we shall find by-and-by; but it is the Saviour identifying Himself with the godly-feeling remnant. King Herod died in 4 BC, Thus, in His full personality, God's answer is given to all who might otherwise have slighted either Himself or His baptism. Holman Hunt has a famous picture of Jesus. The ground of omitting the words lies in the fact, that the last temptation occupies the second place in Luke. They shed their blood for him, who afterwards shed his for them. Now again, Joseph is really in contact with the Lord and the Spirit. The second chapter of the gospel closes with Jesus as a little child; the third chapter of the gospel opens with Jesus as a man of thirty (compare Luke 3:23). It was one of the greatest caravan routes in the world. III. Herod was half Jew and half Idumaean. He did not come into a protected cushioned life; he came into the life that any man must live. He had left Judaea to Archelaus; Galilee to Herod Antipas; and the region away to the northeast and beyond Jordan to Philip. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Before husband and wife came together, the espoused Mary was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Therefore the tears associated with Exile (Jeremiah 31:15) will end. the God of heaven would set up a kingdom; and more than this, that the Son of man was the person to administer the kingdom. Matthew 2:22 Meaning and Commentary. What were his thoughts of the Messiah? Jesus came into the world to live for men, and, in the end, to die for men. The Sons of Herod's Wives King Archelaus Archelaus was only seventeen and heir to the kingdom in his father's willready or not. He quotes it in the form: Out of Egypt have I called my son. In times of difficulty he remitted the taxes to make things easier for the people; and in the famine of 25 B.C. Man would have hidden all this assuredly; he would have preferred to put forth either some flaming account of ancient and august ancestry, or to concentrate all the honour and glory in one, the lustre of whose genius eclipsed all antecedents. Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular. As Joseph belonged to the Solomon-branch, he would have barred the right of our Lord to the throne, looking at it as a mere question now of His being the Son of David; and we are entitled so to take it. What we need is, to gather up all, for all is worthy; to delight ourselves in every thought that the Spirit of God has treasured up every fragrance, so to speak, that He has preserved for us of the ways of Jesus. if Saul hear it, he will kill me. Where, in the mind of the Spirit of God, such a continual, conspicuous point of quoting and applying Scripture in all places and seasons to the Lord Jesus? 176.] Sea of Galilee and the 2:19-23 When Herod died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. Salt will not communicate purity to what is impure, but it is used as the preservative power according to righteousness. Matthew is a prophecy buff. If Jehovah called Moses up to the top of one mount) He who then spake the ten words sat now upon another mount, and taught His disciples the character of the kingdom of heaven, and its principles introduced as a whole, just answering to what we have seen of the facts and effects of His ministry, entirely passing by all intervals or connecting circumstances. In fact Nazareth is never mentioned in the Old Testament. "Take heed [He says] that you do not your righteousness before men." . Which province does Joseph appear to have considered or that if God has thus been pleased to draw out two distinct lines of truth, we are not to gather up the divine principle of each and all? The threats carried out by Archelaus ending in the death of 3000 in the Temple were not just threats to the worshipers in Jerusalem at Passover, but also amounted to a threat to Caesar himself, since Archelaus acted in every manner a king, before such title had been given by Caesar. He was loyal to Rome. There was a great cry in Egypt when the first-born were slain, and so there was here when the youngest was slain; for whom we naturally have a particular tenderness. It is on those who faithfully and ungrudgingly accept the simple duties that the world is built. Herod now thought he had baffled all the Old Testament prophecies, had defeated the indications of the star, and the devotions of the wise men, by ridding the country of this new King; having burnt the hive, he concludes he had killed the master bee; but God in heaven laughs at him, and has him in derision. When Jesus Christ came the world was in an eagerness of expectation. When they An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and told him to get up and take Mary and Jesus and flee to Egypt to avoid the Massacre of the Innocents. The scripture was fulfilled. This is the literal meaning of Jeremiah 31:15. They didn't finish the prophecy. To what painful feelings it might give rise! Archelaus fell into disrepute and was deposed in his 10th year of reign as ethnarch, being banished to Vienna (today Vienne) in Gaul.
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