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Originally Posted by Enlil-An
. . .Very creative, but if we read the passage in sequence, there are two dreams. The second one was a warning, the first one wasn't. And, like I said, there is no indication in Matthew's gospel that Joseph was ever originally travelling to Galilee. . .
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I worry often if I have it worded well enough for to be understood.
I to believe there are two dreams and maybe even three.
But the point is according to the verses
Matthew 2:21 And he arose, and took the young child and his
mother, and came into the land of Israel.
Matthew 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in
Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go
thither:
Thither.
Now where is thither?
Where does the verse say he was going?
In the Greek that survives as the most trustworthy it says
"He was afraid there to go, having been divinely instructed."
Matthew 2:21 And he arose, and took the young child and his
mother, and came into the land of Israel.
He was going into the land of Israel proper which would have brought him through
or near Bethlehem.
Being warned in a dream he no longer wanted to go thither so he turned aside ("withdrew" in the greek) to
go only through Galilee.
Was he still in Israel?
Yes, tecknically, but he was in the "Land of the Gentiles" as the saying goes because of the many
"gentile converts" being made in the land.
But he did not go "thither" the way he was wanting to go.
It is all in your frame of mind and how you see the land.
This is Matthews view.
Not from one who is a critic of the Scriptures in the first place.
. . . notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he
turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
Matthew 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He
shall be called a Nazarene.
Bro. Rudick