Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 2:20

Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 2:20 - 2:20

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Robertson Word Pictures - Matthew 2:20 - 2:20

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For they are dead (tethnēkasin). Only Herod had sought to kill the young child, but it is a general statement of a particular fact as is common with people who say: “They say.” The idiom may be suggested by Exo 4:19 : “For all are dead that sought thy life.”