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LUKE 2:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 2:20Luke 2:22
“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.

Church Fathers on Luke 2:21

Having related our Lord’s nativity, the Evangelist adds, And after that eight days were accomplished for the circumcision of the child.

Bede · 8th century

Who is this Child, but He of whom it was said, Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given? For He was made under the law, that He might redeem them who were under the law.

Ambrose · 4th century

Now the followers of Ebion and Cerinthus say, “It is enough for a disciple if he be as his Master. But Christ circumcised Himself. Be you therefore circumcised.” But herein do they deceive themselves, destroying their own principles; for if Ebion should confess that Christ as God descended from heaven and was circumcised on the eighth day, it might then afford the ground of an argument for circumcision; but since he affirms Him to be mere man, surely as a boy he cannot be the…

EPIPHAN ·
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