“And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.”
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived — the circumcision and naming on the eighth day follows the covenant requirement of Genesis 17:12. The name Jesus is given at circumcision — the moment of official covenant initiation is also the moment of the divinely appointed naming. The name given before he was conceived: the divine foreknowledge and foreordination of the incarnation expressed in the prior naming.
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