Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Warned in a dream (xrhmatisqentev kat onar). The verb means to transact business (xrhmatizw from xrhma, and that from xraomai, to use. Then to consult, to deliberate, to make answer as of magistrates or an oracle, to instruct, to admonish. In the Septuagint and the New Testament it occurs with the idea of being warned by God and also in the papyri (Deissmann, Bible Studies, p. 122). Wycliff puts it here: "An answer taken in sleep."
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 2:12:
Luke 2:39
Acts 10:22
Acts 11:26
Romans 11:4
Hebrews 8:5
Hebrews 11:7
Hebrews 11:15
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