Jesus Presented at the Temple
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21 When the eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus—the name given by the angel before he was conceived.
Yet in this naming of Him “Saviour,” in the act of circumcising Him, which was a symbolical and bloody removal of the body of sin, we have a tacit intimation that they “had need”—as John said of His Baptism—rather to be circumcised by Him “with the circumcision made without hands, in the putting off of the body [of the sins] of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ”
the obedience to which His circumcision pledged Him was a redeeming obedience—that of a “Saviour.”
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2:22–24 The days of their purification lasted another thirty-three days after the child’s circumcision
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upon him—Thus was the Spirit, after a dreary absence of nearly four hundred years, returning to the Church, to quicken expectation, and prepare for coming events.
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From the intermediate offering of “a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons,” we gather that Joseph and the Virgin were in poor circumstances (2 Co 8:9), though not in abject poverty
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How people respond to Jesus is the difference between pardon and condemnation, eternity in heaven or hell.
In considering the gospel about Christ, many in Israel “fell” eternally due to unbelief and others rose by faith to eternal life.
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Since Jerusalem was the Jewish capital, the redemption of Jerusalem means the redemption of all the people of Israel.