Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadHeinrich Meyer Commentary - Matthew 1:6 - 1:6
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Mat_1:6. Τὸν Δαυεὶδ τὸν βασιλέα ] Although an apposition with the article follows the proper name, yet Δαυείδ also takes the article, not for the sake of uniformity with the preceding name (de Wette), but in order to designate David demonstratively, as already marked out in Mat_1:1. In Mat_1:16, also, the article before Ἰωσήφ , which is accompanied by an apposition, has, in keeping with the deep significance of his paternal relation to Jesus, demonstrative power (Kühner, II. p. 520).
The τὸν βασιλέα also, and the subsequent emphatic repetition of ὁ βασιλεύς , are a distinction for David, with whom the Messiah’s genealogy entered upon the kingly dignity.
τῆς τοῦ Οὐρίου ] Such methods of expression by the simple genitive suppose the nature of the relationship in question to be known, as here it is that of wife. Comp. Hectoris Andromache, Luther’s Katharina, and the like. See Kühner, II. p. 285 f. Winer, p. 178 [E. T. p. 237].