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Luke 2:11

Luke 2:11
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For unto you is born this day,.... Day is here put for a natural day, consisting both of night and day; for it was night when Christ was born, and the angels brought the tidings of it to the…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

A Savior, which is Christ the Lord - A Savior, σωτηρ, the same as Jesus from σωζειν, to make safe, to deliver, preserve, to make alive, thus used by the Septuagint for החיה hecheiah, to cause to…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 2:8-20

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

a Saviour It is a curious fact that -Saviour" and -Salvation," so common in St Luke and St Paul (in whose writings they occur forty-four times), are comparatively rare in the rest of the New…