Christmas Eve; 24 December 2022; Christmas I (RCL); Isaiah 9:2-7; Psalm 26; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20.
The passage we hear from Isaiah is one of the most familiar to Christians in what we call the Old Testament, thanks in no small measure to G. F. Handel. All those royal titles have been applied to Jesus through the long history of Christian biblical interpretation. Isaiah certainly had something else in mind.
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