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Matthew 2:17
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Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Ieremie the Prophet, saying,
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
So what God had said through the prophet Jeremiah came true:
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
Then was that fulfilled which is spoken by the Prophet Ieremias, saying,
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
So the Lord's promise came true, just as the prophet Jeremiah had said,
In this way were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Yirmeyahu,
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias the prophet, saying,
This gave full meaning to what God said through the prophet Jeremiah:
Then was fulfilled what was said by the prophet Jeremiah who said,
In this way what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true:
Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying,
Then was fulfilled that spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true,
Then that which was spoken by Yirmeyahu the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
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Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Eramio the prophet, who said,
Then was that fulfilled, which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
Then was fulfylled that, which was spoken by Ieremie the prophete, saying.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
Then were these words, spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, fulfilled,
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Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:
Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
Herod's brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:
Then it happened as the early preacher Jeremiah said it would happen.
Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:
Then was fulfilled, that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying:
Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:
Then was fulfilled yt which was spoken by the Prophet Ieremy sayinge:
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Then was yt fulfilled which was spoken by ye Prophet Ieremy sayinge:
Then was fulfilled that passage of Jeremy the prophet,
This also brought truth to a long ago foretelling by the prophet Jeremiah,
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Matthew 2:15
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Who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those that do them.
Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey? Whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed me from the law of sin and death.
For as through Adam all die, even so through Christ shall all be made alive.
But thanks be to God,
for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all the things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
And you who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him,
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
If any one see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, let him ask, and he will give him life for them that sin not unto death.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ver. 17, 18. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken,.... By the slaughter of the infants at Bethlehem was literally accomplished what had been predicted by
Jeremy the prophet, in Jeremiah 31:15.
in Rama was there a voice heard, c. That this prophecy belongs not to the Babylonish captivity, but the times of the Messiah, appears from the whole context which manifestly speaks of the miraculous conception of Christ, of the blessings of his kingdom to be enjoyed by his people, and of the new covenant to be made with them, as I have shown in another place r. Rama was not in Arabia, as Justin Martyr says s, but a town in the tribe of Benjamin,
Joshua 18:25 and very near to Bethlehem in the tribe of Juda: between these two places, and near to both of them, was the grave of Rachel,
Genesis 35:19 for which reason, and also because Rama belonged to Benjamin, a son of hers, and where, no doubt, many children were destroyed in this massacre, as well as at Bethlehem, Rachel is introduced in the prophecy representing the sorrowful mothers of those parts,
weeping for their children; whose distress and grief are signified by several words, "lamentation, weeping and great mourning", to express the excessiveness thereof, for they
would not be comforted; they refused to hear anything that might be suggested to them for their relief, because their children
were not, i.e. were dead, were not in the land of the living, and no more to be enjoyed by them in this world. I cannot forbear transcribing a remark made by a noted Jew t upon that passage in
Genesis 35:20. "And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave"; to show, says he, that Jacob saw that this thing was of the Lord, and that it would be an help to her children, as it is written, "a voice was heard in Rama", c. wherefore he set a pillar upon her and to show that the affair of her grave, that this היתה לעתיד "belonged to the time to come", he says, "that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day": he means,
יום הגאולה, "the day of redemption". And Rachel, in the passage of Jeremy, the Jews u themselves own, means the congregation of Israel.
r Prophecies of the Messiah, &c. p. 126, &c. s Dialog. cum Tryph. p. 304. t R. Abraham Seba Tzeror Hammor, fol. 47. 1. u Zohar in Exod. fol. 13. 1. & in Lev. fol. 8. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then was fulfilled - The word “fulfilled,” here. is used evidently in the sense that the words in Jeremiah aptly express the event which Matthew was recording. Compare the notes at Matthew 1:22.
That which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet - Jeremiah. This quotation is taken from Jeremiah 31:15. The original design of the prophecy was to describe the sorrowful departure of the people of Israel into captivity after the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuzaradan. The captives were assembled at Rama, Jeremiah himself being in chains, and there the fate of those who had escaped in the destruction of the city was decided at the will of the conqueror, Jeremiah 40:1. The nobles had been slain; the sons of the king had been murdered in his presence; the eyes of the king had been put out, and the people were then gathered at Rama in chains, whence they were to start on their mournful journey, slaves to a cruel monarch, leaving behind them all that was dear in life. The sadness of such a scene is well expressed in the language of the prophet, and it no less beautifully and suitably applies to the melancholy event which the evangelist records, and there could be no impropriety in his using it as a quotation.