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This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough."
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A Sign of Humility
Commentators emphasize that the sign's power was in its humility. Instead of a palace, the Savior was in a manger, identifying with the poor and common people. Charles Spurgeon notes this is a perpetual sign that Christ is found in simplicity, not in worldly pomp or elaborate ceremony. The sign itself reveals the nature of the King.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Verse 12. This shall be a sign, and so on. The evidence by which you will know the child is that you will find him wrapped in swaddling cl…
19th Century
Anglican
This shall be a sign unto you.—The sign was not so in itself, but became so by its agreement with the prediction. It was …
Baptist
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Not in marble halls, wra…
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Babies were snugly wrapped in long strips of cloth, giving them warmth, protection of extremities, and a sense of security in their newborn existen…
16th Century
Protestant
And this shall be a sign to you153 The angel addresses the prejudice that might naturally hinder the faith of the shepherds. Fo…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And this shall be a sign to you When they should come to Bethlehem, and to the inn where Joseph and Mary were:
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Angels were heralds of the newborn Savior, but they were only sent to some poor, humble, pious, industrious shepherds, who were attending to their …
