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The keynote of the Gospel of Luke is God’s love. Luke was “obviously a man of culture, with an appreciation of the beautiful, and he could write well. But it is not any or all of these that accounts for the beauty of this writing. Rather it is the way the love of God shines through in parable and saying and story of Jesus. Luke’s theme is a grand one and he treats it at some length. His Gospel is...

10–11. The angel first reassures his hearers (cf. 1:13, 30). He goes on to explain that he has come with good and joyful news (the verb translated bring … good news was later to be used characteristically of the good news of the gospel; it had been used in LXX of the deliverance of God’s people, e.g. Isa. 40:9; 52:7; cf. also Isa. 61:1). Thus early the note of great joy is struck. The people (laos) normally means ‘the people of Israel’, not people in general. The news of the Saviour would mean much
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