46. Sitting in the midst of the doctors Rays of divine brightness must have evidently shone in this child: otherwise those haughty men would not have permitted him to sit along with them. Though it is probable that he occupied a lower seat, and not the rank of the doctors, yet such disdainful men would not have condescended to give him an audience in a public assembly, if some divine power had not constrained them. This was a sort of prelude to his public calling, the full time of which had not yet arrived. In this way, however, he intended to give nothing more than a taste, which would immediately have faded from the recollection of men, had not Mary kept it for us laid up in her heart, ( Luke 2:19 ,) to bring it out afterwards, along with other treasures, for the use of all the godly. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-47" class="com-number"
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source-manifest/cal— Calvin's Commentaries (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological