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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

the outline of the Messiah’s movements: from Judea (2:1) to Egypt (2:14) to Israel (2:21) to Galilee (2:22). (For Chrysostom, Hom. on Mt. 6:5, Gen 49:10 is being recalled.)7 The article before ‘Judea’ is a remnant from the original adjectival use of the word (cf. Mk 1:5; Jn 3:22; BDF§ 261.4). ἐν ἡμέραις Ἡρῴδου τοῦ βασιλέως. Compare Lk 1:5, and contrast 1:6, where David is king. Herod reigned from 37–4 B.C. ἐν (ταῖς) ἡμέραις + proper name in the genitive is a biblicism, frequent in the
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