John Trapp on Luke 2:23

Verse 23. That openeth the womb] This proves that Mary brought forth Christ in a naturall way, and not utero clauso, by a miracle, as Papists would have it, to prove their fiction of Transubstantiation. Shall be called holy to the Lord] God requireth the first-born, as usually best-beloved; that together with our children, he might draw to himself the best of our affections.