Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 2:18
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Luke2:18
18 And all they that heard it, wondred at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
It was Night, yet they delayed not to go, and make a search, according to the Revelation of the Angel, and not in vain, they found Mary and Ioseph, and the Babe. Divine Revelations never deceive the Soul, that gives credit to them. Heaven and Earth may pass away, but nothing which God hath spoken shall pass away without its accomplishment. When they had seen it, they made known the saying, &c. They had no charge of Secrecy upon them, so did well in publishing what was of such Universal concern for Men to know, Spiritual Morsels ought not to be Ate alone. The effect of their Relation, in the generality of the People that heard it, was the same which we have often met with, upon the Peoples seeing of Christs Miracles, viz. Amazement, and Astonishment, we read nothing of their Faith. The first was a Natural Effect of a strange Relation. The other must have been the special Operation of God.
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