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John Trapp on Luke 2:5

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Luke2:5

Verse 5. Being great with child] Yet could not be excused. This was a cruelty in Augustus (not to spare great-bellied women) but a mercy of God to mankind; for what the [illegible: 1 word] had it been for us, if Joseph had gone to Bethlehem, and not Mary also?

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