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Luk 1:39. Ἀναστᾶσα, having arisen) The angel had given her the suggestion [occasion] which led her to go, Luk 1:36.-[ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις, in those days) of the sixth month, Luk 1:26; Luk 1:36.-V. g.]-μετὰ σπουδῆς) Σπουδὴ, and its derivatives and compounds, often in the LXX. denote haste, בהלה.-εἰς πόλιν Ἰούδα, to a city of Juda) Luke does not specify the name of this city of the priests in the hill country, but from Jos 21:11, we know it was Hebron; but he specifically sets down the name of the tribe, Juda. Here then it was, we may, not without good reason, conjecture, that the conception of Jesus Christ took place. [The haste of the holy virgin, just now noticed, is in consonance with this view.-Harm. p. 42.] Comp. Kohlreiff. in Jes. 30; and concerning the nativity of Jesus Christ in the land of Canaan, p. 96. Moreover, there were most remarkable motions and emotions in Elisabeth, and her infant in the womb, and in Mary, Luk 1:41-42 : also the particle γὰρ, for, in Luk 1:44, has an altogether peculiar weight, expressing the reason why, at this particular point of time, Elisabeth first proclaims Mary to be the mother of her Lord [Luk 1:43]. Of so great moment, in truth, is the conception, that, if it had happened at Nazareth, He would have been called a Nazarene for that reason, rather than on account of His parents dwelling there. But this fact of their dwelling there is given as the one and only cause of that surname which He bore [ch. Luk 4:16; Luk 4:24]. As it is, the Lord, both with reference to His mother and progenitors, and with reference to the places alike where He was conceived as well as born, was sprung from Juda.