14Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
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Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-20)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 did in some measure exalt him and give him earnests of his future exaltation. When we saw him wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger , we were tempted to say, “Surely this cannot be the Son o…
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