![]() ![]() 203, who likewise assumes a meteor), is a pecided and unworthy offence against the contents and purpose of the narrative, which is to be left in its charming, thoughtful, and lofty simplicity as the most distinguished portion of the cycle of legend, which surrounded the birth and the early life of Jesus. To make of these angelic appearances a natural (phosphoric) phenomenon, which had first been single and then had divided itself and moved to and fro, and which the shepherds, to whom was known Mary’s hope of bringing forth the Messiah, interpreted to themselves of this birth (Paulus comp. λ.] over all things, which they had just heard and seen in Bethlehem after such manner as was spoken to them by the angel at Luke 2:10-12. The latter is more special than the former. in silent heart-pondering she compared and interpreted them to herself. λ.] The Vulgate well renders: conferens, inasmuch as she put them together, i.e. On συντηρεῖν, alta mente repositum servare, comp. Observe in the narrative the emphasis of πάντα, as well as the purposely chosen adumbrative tense συνετήρει (previously the aorist). She kept all these utterances ( τὰ ῥήματα) of the shepherds. Δέ] leading over to the special thing, which Mary amidst this general amazement did-she, who, in accordance with the revelations made to her, was more deeply struck with the tidings of the shepherds, and saw matters in a deeper light. True faith produces great joy and thanksgiving to God, and needs must produce joy, because of the union it maketh betwixt a soul and its desired object. Glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them which argued that they gave a firm and full assent to them, and that they were the first fruits of believers under the gospel dispensation. The shepherds were only made occasional preachers, Proverbs hac vice they return, but Religion gives none a discharge from their secular duties: the disciples had a special call and command, that left their nets, and their parents, and followed Christ. The shepherds return, that is, to the care of their flocks. Mary suffereth them not to pass out of her thoughts, nor entertains them with a mere passion, which suddenly is extinguished but she pondereth them in her heart, both those things she had learned from her husband, and what herself had heard from the angel, and this also, which was related to her of or by the shepherds. The people only wondered, thinking the story of the shepherds a strange story. The different effect of these things upon the generality of the people, upon Mary, and upon the shepherds, is worthy of our notice. She "thought" of these things often and anxiously. This is the original meaning of the word "weighed." She kept them she revolved them she "weighed" them in her mind, giving to each circumstance its just importance, and anxiously seeking what it might indicate respecting her child. Everything they do or suffer - everything that is said of them, is treasured up in her mind and often she thinks of those things, and anxiously seeks what they may indicate respecting the future character and welfare of her child. A "mother" forgets none of those things which occur respecting her children. Here is a delicate and beautiful expression of the feelings of a mother. She "remembered" what the angel had said to "her " what had happened to Elizabeth and to the shepherds - all the extraordinary circumstances which had attended. Barnes' Notes on the BibleMary kept all these things - All that happened, and all that was said respecting her child. ![]()
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