Boyhood Of Jesus
Boyhood Of Jesus [1]
‘ And his mother kept all these sayings in her heart ’ (διετήρει occurs in Nt only here and Acts 15:29; cf. Genesis 37:11 of Jacob concerning Joseph. ὁ δὲ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ διετήρησεν τὸ ῥῆμα, where E [Note: Elohist.] has the same tense as here διετήρει, perhaps by assimilation). But Jacob lost hope ( Genesis 37:35), while Mary kept these sayings in her heart. It was a close, persistent, faithful keeping, but a keeping in silence, even when it might have changed the attitude of His kinsmen towards Him, or indeed have saved His life. She spoke, no doubt, when the right time came. Stress is laid on her faithfulness and meditation also in Luke 2:19. We may ask whether τὰ ῥήματα included other sayings than the ῥῆμα of
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Bibliography Information Hastings, James. Entry for 'Boyhood of Jesus'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/b/boyhood-of-jesus.html. 1906-1918.
