John Bengel Commentary - Luke 2:34 - 2:34

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John Bengel Commentary - Luke 2:34 - 2:34


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Luk 2:34. Εὐλόγησεν, blessed) ברך, bidding them farewell with a blessing, after he had seen their pious wonder.-αὐτοὺς, them) Joseph and Mary: not Jesus Himself: see Heb 7:7.-εἶπε, he said) His faithful prediction of coming adversities succeeds to their joyful admiration [wonder], and acts as an antidote to the abuse of it.-πρὸς Μαριὰμ, to Mary) rather than to Joseph, of whom the last mention occurs in Luk 2:51; see note there. [He is therefore supposed, with probability, to have died before Jesus reached His thirtieth year.-V. g.]-οὗτος, He [This child]) concerning Whom thou dost wonder that such things are spoken.-κεῖται) He, who is lying [alluding to which κεῖται is used; Engl. Vers. loses this point, “is set”] in my arms; He is set (laid as in a building), as a precious stone, for the fall and rising again. It is to be observed, that these things were not foretold in the prediction of the angel, Luk 2:10-11, ch. Luk 1:30-31, but were added by a holy man. It was the province of the angel only εὐαγγελίζεσθαι, to bring good tidings.-καὶ ἀνάστασιν, and the rising again) And here ought not to be taken as a mere disjunctive: comp. 2Co 2:15; for many of those same persons who fall rise up again also. Rom 11:11-12. He Himself is the resurrection, as He Himself is the sign.-πολλῶν, of many) So Luk 2:35.-σημεῖον ἀντιλεγόμενον, a sign, which is [about to be] spoken against) A striking Oxymoron. Signs in other cases do away with all contradiction: but this sign shall be an object of contradiction, although, considered in itself, it is an evident sign to faith; Isa 55:13, LXX. For in the very fact that He is a light, He is conspicuous and signalized [insignis, in reference to signum, which is its derivation]. It will be a great spectacle. The mutual contradictions of believers and unbelievers, with respect to Jesus, as also the thoughts, Luk 2:35, of unbelievers against Jesus, are chiefly recorded by John, ch. 5 and following chapters. They contradicted Him in words and acts; Heb 12:3. It was not yet the seasonable time, that His passion, cross, and death should be more expressly predicted. When Jesus is being for the first time presented in the temple, adversities are declared as awaiting Him. When He was for the last time in the temple, He Himself spake words not unlike those of Simeon; Mat 23:37.