Mat 2:19-23 Mat_2:19-20. Now when Herod was dead… It would seem that the holy family had not been in Egypt very long before Herod died. Josephus in great detail relates the events that transpired during the king’s final illness. Since at that time pathology and diagnosis were still in their infancy, it would be rather ...
Mat 2:16-18 In all probability it did not take many days for Herod to conclude that he would never again see the magi. After they had left him he waited a day, two days perhaps. He now realized that his command, “When you have found him report to me,” was not being obeyed. Mat_2:16. Then ...
Mat 2:13-15 Mat_2:13. Now when they had retired, what happened? An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up, take the little child and his mother, escape to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you (to leave), for Herod is about to search for the little child, to destroy ...
Mat 2:1-12 According to God’s promise (2Sa_7:12-13) Jesus is the rightful heir to David’s throne. Chapter 1 has made this clear. He is the son whose throne will be “established forever” (cf. 2Sa_7:13 with Luk_1:32-33). It is fitting, therefore, that royal homage be rendered to him, and this not only by the Jews but also ...
Matthew Henry writes on Ex. 13.14-16: Further directions concerning the catechising of their children, and all those of the rising generation, from time to time, in this matter. It is supposed that, when they saw all the firstlings thus devoted, they would ask the meaning of it, and their parents and teachers must tell them ...
Matthew Henry writes on Ex. 13.3: The remembrance of their coming out of Egypt must also be perpetuated: “Remember this day, v. 3. Remember it by a good token, as the most remarkable day of your lives, the birthday of your nation, or the day of its coming of age, to be no longer under ...
Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations: 42. Meditation Rev. 3.22. I WILL GIVE HIM TO SIT WITH ME IN MY THRONE (1691). Apples, of gold, in silver pictures shrin’deEnchant the appitite, make mouths to water.And Loveliness in Lumps, tunn’d, and enrin’deIn Jasper Cask, when tapt, doth briskly vaper:Brings forth a birth of Keyes t’unlock Loves Chest,That Love, ...
There is a noteworthy, exhilarating scene in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire, where the Scottish runner Eric Liddell (who was actually born in China and was the first China-born athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics) is knocked down in a race, gets back up and somehow manages to win the race ...
WELCOME TO THE CONTINUING COLLAPSE! By Bruce N. Shortt, J.D., Ph.D. January, Anno Domini 2010 "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."(Groucho Marx) ? Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician’s corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged. I wept: for I had longed to ...
This article is a must-read (click HERE)! Anyone involved in the debate over the church’s acceptance of homosexuality has probably tried to make this same point, but I have never heard (or read) it put so well. In fact, it is so good that I’m not going to say another word…VB*Note: My apologies to my ...