11So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
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And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)It appears by the date of this chapter that we are now coming very nigh to that fatal year which completed the desolations of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. God’s judgments came gradually upon them, but, they not meeting him by repentance in the way of his judgments, he proceeded in his controversy till all was laid waste, which was in the eleventh year of Zedekiah; now what is here recorde…
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