RETROSPECT. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MATTHEW AND LUKE AS TO THE ORIGINAL RESIDENCE OF THE PARENTS OF JESUS.
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58 Fritzsche, in loc. aptly says—comperto, quasi magos non ad se redituros statim scivisset, orti sideris tempore, etc. ↑
59 K. Ch. L. Schmidt, exeg. Beiträge, 1, s. 150 f. Comp. Fritzsche and De Wette in loc. ↑
60 Hoffman thinks that Herod shunned this measure as a breach of hospitality; yet this very Herod he represents as a monster of cruelty, and that justly, for the conduct attributed to the monarch in chap. ii. of Matthew is not unworthy of his heart, against which Neander superfluously argues (p. 30 f.), but of his head. ↑
61 Schmidt, ut sup. p. 155 f. ↑
62 Stark, Synops. bibl. exeg. in N. T., p. 62. ↑
63 This was the opinion of some of the Fathers, e.g. Euseb. Demonstr. evang. 9, ap. Suicer, 1, s. 559; Joann. Damasc. de fide orthod. ii. 7. ↑
64 Chrysostomus and others ap. Suicer, ut sup. and the Evang. infant. arab. c. vii. ↑
65 See Kuinöl, Comm. in Matth., p. 23. ↑
66 Vermischte Aufsätze, s. 8. ↑
67 Bibl. Comm. in loc, Hoffmann, s. 261. ↑
68 Schmidt, exeg. Beiträge, 1, 152 ff. ↑
69 This is shown in opposition to Olshausen by Steudel in Bengel’s Archiv. vii. ii. 425 f. viii. iii. 487. ↑
70 Schmidt, ut sup. p. 156. ↑
71 Babylon. Sanhedr. f. cvii. 2, ap. Lightfoot, p. 207. Comp. Schöttgen, ii. p. 533. According to Josephus Antiq. xiii. xiii. 5, xiv. 2, they were Jews of each sex and of all ages, and chiefly Pharisees. ↑
72 Joseph. B. J. i. xxx. 3. Comp. Antiq. xvii. iv. 1. ↑
73 Macrob. Saturnal. ii. 4: Quum audisset (Augustus) inter pueros, quos in Syriâ Herodes rex Judæorum intra bimatum jussit interfici, filium quoque ejus occisum, ait: melius est, Herodis porcum (ὗν) esse quam filium (υἱόν). ↑
74 Vid. Wetstein, Kuinöl, Olshausen in loc. Winer d. A. Herodes. ↑
75 Fritzsche, Comm. in Matt., p. 93 f. ↑
76 Chrysostom and others. ↑
77 Vid. Gratz, Comm. zum Ev. Matth. 1, s. 115. ↑
78 Kuinöl, ad Matth. p. 44 f. ↑
79 Wetstein, in loc. ↑
80 Schneckenburger, Beiträge zur Einleitung in das N. T., s. 42. ↑
81 Gieseler, Studien und Kritiken, 1831, 3. Heft, s. 588 f. Fritzsche, s. 104. Comp. Hieron. ad Jesai. xi. 1. ↑
82 For both these explanations, see Kuinöl, in loc. ↑
83 Kepler, in various treatises; Münter, der Stern der Weisen; Ideler, Handbuch der mathemat. und technischen Chronologie, 2. Bd. s. 399 ff. ↑
84 Olshausen, s. 67. ↑
85 Paulus, ut sup. s. 202, 221. ↑
86 Bengel’s Archiv. vii. ii. p. 424. ↑
87 At a later period, it is true, this journey of Jesus was the occasion of calumnies from the Jews, but those were of an entirely different nature, as will be seen in the following chapter. ↑
88 Ueber formelle oder genetische Erklärungsart der Wunder. In Henke’s Museum, 1, 3, 399 ff. Similar essays see in the Abhandlungen über die beiden ersten Kapitel des Matthäus u. Lukas, in Henke’s Magazin, 5, 1, 171 ff., and in Matthäi, Religionsgl. der Apostel, 2, s. 422 ff. ↑
89 L. J. Ch., s. 29 ff. ↑
90 Orig. c. Cels. i. 60. Auctor, op. imperf. in Matth. ap. Fabricius Pseudepigr. V. T., p. 807 ff. ↑
91 Schmidt’s Bibliothek, 3, 1, s. 130. ↑
92 In loc. Num. (Schöttgen, horæ, ii. p. 152): Multi Interpretati sunt hæc de Messiâ. ↑
93 Justin, Hist. 37. ↑
94 Sueton. Jul. Cæs. 88. ↑
95 Jalkut Rubeni, f. xxxii. 3 (ap. Wetstein): quâ horâ natus est Abrahamus, pater noster, super quem sit pax, stetit quoddam sidus in oriente et deglutivit quatuor astra, quæ erant in quatuor cœli plagis. According to an Arabic writing entitled Maallem, this star, prognosticating the birth of Abraham, was seen by Nimrod in a dream. Fabric. Cod. pseudepigr. V. T. i. s. 345. ↑
96 Testamentum XII. Patriarcharum, test. Levi, 18 (Fabric. Cod. pseud. V. T. p. 584 f.): καὶ ἀνατελεῖ ἄστρον αὐτοῦ (of the Messianic ἱερεὺς καινὸς) ἐν οὐρανῷ,—φωτίζον φῶς γνώσεως κ.τ.λ. Pesikta Sotarta, f. xlviii. 1 (ap. Schöttgen, ii. p. 531): Et prodibit stella ab oriente, quæ est stella Messiæ, et in oriente versabitur dies X V. Comp. Sohar Genes. f. 74. Schöttgen, ii. 524, and some other passages which are pointed out by Ideler in the Handbuch der Chronologie, 2 Bd. s. 409, Anm. 1, and Bertholdt, Christologia Judæorum, § 14. ↑
97 Compare with the passages cited Note 7. Protevang. Jac. cap. xxi.: εἴδομεν ἀστέρα παμμεγέθη, λάμψαντα ἐν τοῖς ἄστροις τοὺτοις καὶ ἀμβλύνοντα αὐτοὺς τοῦ φαίνειν. Still more exaggerated in Ignat. ep. ad Ephes. 19. See the collection of passages connected with this subject in Thilo, cod. apocr. i. p. 390 f. ↑