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What makes this commentary on Luke stand apart from others is that, from beginning to end, this is a literary analysis. Because it focuses solely on the Gospel as it appears and not on its source or origin, this commentary richly and thoroughly explores just what Luke is saying and how he says it.

The reader might even be moved to reflect over the deeper dimensions of the “sign” given by the angel (2:12). In the notes I suggest it is not the circumstances of the child but the angel’s description of them that functions as the sign. Yet, is there perhaps another dimension to the odd details enumerated by Luke? Can the threefold, deliberate phrasing in the Greek of, “wrapped him in cloth strips, placed him in a manger, because there was no place” perhaps anticipate the same threefold rhythm of
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