{Grew} ((8875)xane). Imperfect active, was growing. {Waxed
strong} (ekrataiouto). Imperfect again. The child kept growing
in strength of body and spirit. {His shewing} (anadeixe(9373)
autou). Here alone in the N.T. It occurs in Plutarch and
Polybius. The verb appears in a sacrificial sense. The boy, as he
grew, may have gone up to the passover and may have seen the boy
Jesus ( Lu 2:42-52 ), but he would not know that he was to be the
Messiah. So these two boys of destiny grew on with the years, the
one in the desert hills near Hebron after Zacharias and Elisabeth
died, the other, the young Carpenter up in Nazareth, each waiting
for "his shewing unto Israel."
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