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In Christmas, the Original Story Margaret Barker explores the nature of the Christmas stories and the nature and use of Old Testament prophecy. Beginning with John’s account, it then goes on to include Luke and Matthew, the apocryphal gospels, and the traditions of the Coptic Church, to throw light upon wise men and their gifts, the character of Herod, Matthew’s use of prophecy, the holy family...
his Father before all worlds, and there is the Son of God who became incarnate of the Virgin Mary. Christians have always been careful to remember and distinguish the ‘two births’. The Orthodox Church calls Christmas ‘the Nativity according to the flesh’, a constant reminder of the ‘other’ birth. Augustine, who died in 430 CE, summarized this in a Christmas sermon: Our LORD Jesus Christ, the Son of Man as well as the Son of God, born of the Father without a Mother, created all days. By his birth
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