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Mat_2:13. Ἀναχωρ . δὲ αὐτῶν ] The divine direction and flight into Egypt must be conceived as taking place immediately after the departure of the Magi.
Mat_2:16. φαίνεται ] historic present.
The continuation of the narrative in connection with the legend of the murder of the children by Herod makes Jesus take refuge in Egypt, not because it was near at hand, not subject to Herod, and inhabited by many Jews, but because a residence in Egypt, and that as an antitype to that of the Israelites in that country, was in accordance with the passage in Hos_11:1 (Mat_2:15). A later age named Matarea, near Leontopolis, as the locality (see Paulus, Merkw. Reisen in d. Orient, III. p. 256; Schubert, Reise in d. Morgenl. II. p. 170).
ἕως ἂν εἴπω σοί ] until I shall have told thee ( ἄν , of a case occurring), that is, that thou shouldst come back again. Ellipsis of the common “it” is, since the time of Homer (Nägelsbach on the Iliad, pp. 60, 120, ed. 3), in universal use.
τοῦ ἀπολέσαι ] Expression of the intention; see Kühner, II. p. 204; Buttm. neut. Gr. p. 232 [E. T. 270].