Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - Luke 2:10 - 2:10
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
I bring you good tidings of great joy (euaggelizomai hūmin charan megalēn). Wycliff, “I evangelize to you a great joy.” The active verb euaggelizō occurs only in late Greek writers, lxx, a few papyri examples, and the N.T. The middle (deponent) appears from Aristophanes on. Luke and Paul employ both substantive euaggelion and verb euaggelizō very frequently. It is to Paul’s influence that we owe their frequency and popularity in the language of Christendom (George Milligan, The Epistles to the Thessalonians, p. 143). The other Gospels do not have the verb save Mat 11:5 and that in a quotation (Isa 61:1).