21And 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.
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And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-24)Our Lord Jesus, being made of a woman , was made under the law , Gal. 4:4. He was not only, as the son of a daughter of Adam, made under the law of nature , but as the son of a daughter of Abraham was made under the law of Moses ; he put his neck under that yoke, though it was a heavy yoke, and a shadow of good things to come . Though its institutions were beggarly elements , and rudiments of this…
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