A26981:81
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and…A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and…
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. II.
1. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the King, behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem; 2. saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews, for we have seen his Star in the East, and are come to worship him.
1. NOw when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the King, behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem; 2. saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews, for we have seen his Star in the East, and are come to worship him.
1, 2. Some time after Christ's birth, Astronomers of great note came from the East-country (Chaldea or Arabia) saying, We have seen an extraordinary Star, which signifieth the birth of the King of the Jews, the Messiah whom they expected, and are come to do our homage and honour to him.
3, 4. When Herod the King had heard these things he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him: And when he had gathered all the chief Priests and Scribes of the people together, he demanded of them, where Christ should be born.