so closely identified with Jesus of Nazareth that it soon became part of his name—Jesus Christ. The reader has been prepared for the use of this title by 1:32–33, 69; 2:4. This Savior is also the Lord. See comments on 1:43; cf. also 1:17, 76. (In 2:26 we have the expression “Lord’s Christ,” but here in 2:11 the title “Lord” clearly refers to Jesus rather than God.) Although the realization of the authority of the titles “Christ” and “Lord” would await the resurrection (Acts 2:36), Jesus at his birth
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