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52 THE FOUR GOSPELS. 12. And when heard that John was delivered up, He retired into Galilee:

13. And leaving the city of Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim.

14. That what was said by Isaiah the prophet, might be fulfilled:

15. “Land of Zabulon, and land of Nephthalim, near the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the gentiles:

16. The people that sat in darkness hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.”

' &Tnto prison” is understood. He was imprisoned by Herod, Anti- pater or Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, and son of Hered the Great.

® Mark i. 14; Luke iv. 14; John iv. 43. The coast of Upper Galilee, whither Christ withdrew, was under the power of Philip, the tetrarch, brother of Herod.

although it had been his dwelling-place for many years. It was aot the place whence he now departed.
 * He is said to have passed Nazareth, beesuae he did not go there,


 * The bordera of the lake.

on the tribes of Zabuton and Nephthali in the days of Theglath-Phalassar, and to the relief afforded them by the defeat ef Sennacherib. The text gays that the Jand of Zabulon and the land of Nephthati was lightly touched. The sacred writers do not always quote literally, or fully; they often give only the substance of the text, or such portion of it ag is applicabic ta the aubject before them. Nephthalim is a Syro-Chaldaic termination.
 * Jeai.ix.1, The prophet directly refers to the calamities which fell

Tiberias, to the weat of the Jordan.
 * Lit. “The way of The tract along the bank of the lake of

ased for the nearer side.
 * By the Jordan. The Latin preposition ¢rans, is often in Scripture

pagans of different nations whe settled there Jt was near the Tyrian territory. There was another Galilee in Judea, ahout Tiberius, and the land of Genesareth.
 * Galilee of the Gentiles tock its name probably from the concourse of

Sennacherib was defeated, was a faint image of the blessings to be con- ferred by our Divine Deliverer. Christ is the true light.
 * The deliverance of the people from servitude and oppression, when

tirely prevails. Ignorance and sin cover the mind with utter darkness,
 * Literally, “in the region and shadow,” that is, where darkness en-