And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
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Gill's Exposition
And suddenly there was with the angel,.... That brought the tidings of Christ's birth to the shepherds: a multitude of the heavenly host: who being caused to fly swiftly, were at once with him, by his…
Adam Clarke
Suddenly there was with the angel, etc. - this multitude of the heavenly host had just now descended from on high, to honor the new-born Prince of peace, to give his parents the fullest conviction of…
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…
Cambridge Bible
a multitude of the heavenly host The Sabaoth; Rom 9:29; Jas 5:4. "Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him," Dan 7:10; Rev 5:11-12. The word is also used of the stars as objects of heathen…
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