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St Matthew's Infancy Narrative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

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page 384 note 2 Knox, W. L., op. cit. p. 122; G. D. Kilpatrick, The Origins of the Gospel according to St Matthew, p. 53.Google Scholar

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page 384 note 4 See further Daube, D., New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism, p. 6.Google Scholar

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page 385 note 3 Op. cit. pp. 122 f.

page 385 note 4 A later Haphtarah is Isa. i. 4 ff., but this has no connexion with our story.

page 385 note 5 DrGuilding, A., 1 The Fourth Gospel and Jewish Worship, pp. 101 f. suggests another lectionary setting, perhaps following the hint in Herford's Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, p. 255, but I do not think it can be developedGoogle Scholar

page 386 note 1 Plummer, A., Exegetical Commentary on St Matthew, p. 13.Google Scholar

page 386 note 2 See and compare Dam. Doc. vii. 19; T. Levi xviii. 3; Rev. xxii. 16.

page 386 note 3 Stendahl, K., The School of St Matthew, p. 136.Google Scholar

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page 386 note 6 Targ. Onk. locates Pethor in Aram, a fact that shows acquaintance with popular tradition, but forbids the identification of ‘the River’ with the Euphrates.

page 387 note 1 This is the implication of Mal. iii. 5, 6.

page 387 note 2 For myrrh compare Exod. xxx. 23.

page 387 note 3 Can this be why Matthew speaks of a house in ii. 11?

page 388 note 1 E.g. Montefiore, Synoptic Gospels, 11, 458, ‘Many heroes have troubled childhoods, e.g. Moses, Cyrus, and several others’.

page 388 note 2 Reading for

page 388 note 3 The same assumption is familiar to St Paul (Rom. v-vii; I Cor. x. 1 ff.; xv. 20), and to the author of Hebrews (vii. 9 f.).

page 388 note 4 By this I do not mean that ‘Son of God’ was a title of the Messiah (see Cullmann, Christology of the N.T. pp. 273 f.), but that Exod. iv. 22; Ps. ii; Hos. xi. 1 were interpreted of the Messiah.

page 388 note 5 Jos. B. J. 1, 660.

page 388 note 6 A. H. M'Neile, Gospel according to St Matthew, in loc.

page 388 note 7 Stendahl, op. cit. p. 197.

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page 389 note 3 Aggadath Bereshith to Gen. xxxv. 19, compare Lam. R. 25.

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