• διὰ — SBLGNT
• διὰ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• ὑπὸ — Robinson-Pierpont

§530The flight into Egypt and the massacre of the innocents217 make manifest the opposition of darkness to the light: "He came to his own home, and his own people received him not."218 Christ's whole life was lived under the sign of persecution. His own share it with him.219 Jesus' departure from Egypt recalls the exodus and presents him as the definitive liberator of God's people.…

2. Yea, says one, Herod you have full well deprived of excuse, and proved him bloodthirsty; but you have not yet solved the question about the injustice of what took place. For if he did unjustly, wherefore did God permit it? Now, what should we say to this? That which I do not cease to say continually, in church, in the market-place and everywhere; that which I also wish you c…

Covers the domestic intrigues of Herod's court: the execution of his sons Alexander and Aristobulus, his paranoia, and the political dynamics of the Herodian family. This paranoid violence contextualizes the Massacre of the Innocents (Matt 2:16).

1. When Christ was born, according to the prophecies, in Bethlehem of Judea, at the time indicated, Herod was not a little disturbed by the enquiry of the magi who came from the east, asking where he who was born King of the Jews was to be found — for they had seen his star, and this was their reason for taking so long a journey; for they earnestly desired to worship the infant…