Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 2:12

Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 2:12 - 2:12

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Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 2:12 - 2:12

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2:2 - 2:2
2:3 - 2:3
2:4 - 2:4
2:5 - 2:5
2:7 - 2:7
2:8 - 2:8
2:9 - 2:9
2:10 - 2:10
2:11 - 2:11
2:12 - 2:12
2:15 - 2:15
2:16 - 2:16
2:20 - 2:20
2:22 - 2:22
2:23 - 2:23

Warned in a dream (chrēmatisthentes kat' onar). The verb means to transact business (chrēmatizō from chrēma, and that from chraomai, to use. Then to consult, to deliberate, to make answer as of magistrates or an oracle, to instruct, to admonish. In the Septuagint and the New Testament it occurs with the idea of being warned by God and also in the papyri (Deissmann, Bible Studies, p. 122). Wycliff puts it here: “An answer taken in sleep.”