Luke 2:39 (WEB)
When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
Catechism · 2
The Mysteries of Christ's Life
“The presentation of Jesus in the temple shows him to be the firstborn Son who belongs to the Lord.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 2:22-39; EX 13:2, 12-13.
Jesus and Israel
“It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth.” — Catechism footnote: Lk 2:22-39.
Fathers and councils · 15
Augustine of Hippo
“And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and His mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word; for Herod will seek the young child to destroy Him.” — editor's note: Luke ii. 22–39.
Read the whole comment“…they had gone with Him to Jerusalem after the purification of His mother, and when those things had been performed in the temple which are recounted by Luke, inasmuch as the words which were spoken by Simeon and Anna in their prophesyings regarding Him, when publicity began to be given to them by the persons who had…” — editor's note: Luke ii. 22–39.
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John Chrysostom
“Luke, however, doth not say that he came there by Divine warning, but that when they had fulfilled all the purification, they returned to Nazareth.” — editor's note: Luke ii. 39.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
Luke has omitted in this place what he knew to have been sufficiently set forth by Matthew, that the Lord after this, for fear that He should be discovered and put to death by Herod, was carried by His parents into…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
Bethlehem was indeed their city, their paternal city, Nazareth the place of their abode.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
Perhaps it may strike you as strange that Matthew should say that His parents went with the young Child into Galilee because they were unwilling to go to Judæa for fear of Archelaus, when they seem to have gone into…
Read the whole comment - A Greek expositorCatena Aurea on Luke
Or again, Luke is here describing the time before the descent to Egypt, for before her purification Joseph had not taken Mary there. But before they went down into Egypt, they were not told by God to go to Nazareth,…
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Now our Lord might have come forth from the womb in the stature of mature age, but this would seem like something imaginary; therefore His growth is gradual, as it follows, And the child grew, and waxed strong.
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
We must observe the distinction of words, that the Lord Jesus Christ in that He was a child, that is, had put on the condition of human weakness, was daily growing and being strengthened.
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
But if as some say the flesh was changed into a Divine nature, how did it derive growth? for to attribute growth to an uncreated substance is impious.
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Rightly with the growth in age, St. Luke has united increase in wisdom, as he says, And he was strengthened, (i. e. in spirit.) For in proportion to the measure of bodily growth, the Divine nature developed its own…
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For if while yet a little child, He had displayed His wisdom, He would have seemed a miracle, but together with the advance of age He gradually shewed Himself, so as to fill the whole world. For not as receiving…
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Wisdom truly, for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, (Col. 2:19.) but grace, because it was in great grace given to the man Christ Jesus, that from the time He began to be man He should be perfect…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
At the feast of the Hebrews the law commanded men not only to observe the time, but the place, and so the Lord’s parents wished to celebrate the feast of the Passover only at Jerusalem.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
But it may be asked, how did His parents go up all the years of Christ’s childhood to Jerusalem, if they were prevented from going there by fear of Archelaus? This question might be easily answered, even had some one…
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Bede on Luke 2:39–41 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 2:39–41 (Catena Aurea).