Luke 2:10

And the angel said unto them; fear not,.... For he was not a messenger of bad, but of good tidings:

for behold, I bring you good tidings; tidings, that were both wonderful and amazing, and therefore…

Behold, I bring you good tidings - I am not come to declare the judgments of the Lord, but his merciful loving-kindness, the subject being a matter of great joy. He then declares his message. Unto you…

The meanest circumstances of Christ's humiliation were all along attended with some discoveries of his glory, to balance them, and take off the offence of them; for even when he humbled himself God…

good tidings the rendering of the verb euangelizomai(see on Luk 1:19).

of great joy See Isa 52:7; Isa 61:1; Rom 5:11; 1Pe 1:8. The contrast of the condition of despair and sorrow into which the…