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St Matthew's Infancy Narrative
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2009
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page 382 note 1 First in Cyril of Jerusalem, Cat. 15. 22; cf. Lindars, B., New Testament Apologetic (1961), p. 126.Google Scholar
page 382 note 2 Coptic text. The Ethiopic has only ‘my cross’, cf. Hennecke-Schneemelcher, Neutestamentliche Apokryphen3, 1 (1959), p. 134.Google Scholar
page 382 note 3 The Ethiopic text translated by James, M. R., The Apocryphal New Testament (1945), p. 511.Google Scholar
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page 383 note 2 Book of Common Prayer.
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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.
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page 386 note 1 Plummer, A., Exegetical Commentary on St Matthew, p. 13.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.
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page 390 note 1 Op. cit. p. 121.
page 390 note 2 Op. cit. p. 471.
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