Matthew 2:14 - Exposition

When he arose, he took ; Revised Version, and he arose and took. The ἐγερθείς here, as in Matthew 2:13 , precludes delay. The young Child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt . As St. Paul in after years was able to connect himself with fellow-craftsmen, and thus maintain himself ( Acts 18:3 ), so might Joseph reasonably expect to be able to do in Egypt, and the more so since the connexion there between those who worked at the same trade seems to have been even closer than elsewhere, for in tile great synagogue at Alexandria they sat together, "so that if a stranger came he could join himself to his fellow-craftsmen and, through their means, obtain his livelihood". Jewish reference to our Lord's stay in Egypt are to be found in the blasphemous tables of his having brought thence his knowledge of magic.