2:22). Like his namesake of long before (Gen. 37–50), Joseph is an astute listener to dreams and also on the verge of a sojourn in Egypt. His righteousness consists not only of a moral commitment to virtue, but even more in his responsiveness to the leading of God (Thomas G. Long, Matthew [Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997], p. 20). The angel informs Joseph that Herod (no longer King Herod in the text since the true King of the Jews has now been born and worshiped by the Magi) will soon seek
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