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Mat 2:13. Ἐγερθεὶς, rising) i.e. immediately.-τὸ παίδιον, the child) Greater regard is paid to Him than to His mother.[95]-ἑώς ἄν, κ.τ.λ., until, etc.) Thus the faith of Joseph was exercised; all things were not revealed to him at once; he was to await the time of returning [till it should please God to direct him to do so]: nor did the angel speak to him in the meanwhile.-Ἠρώδης, Herod) of whom Joseph appears to have hoped well from the discourse of the Magi.
[95] And it is rather towards the name and kingdom of Christ, than towards any power external to Christ, that the world bears a grudge.-Vers. Germ.