The Birth And Youth Of The Man-Savior
THE BIRTH AND YOUTH
OF THE MAN-SAVIOR
Luke presents a Man-Savior. Following the narration of His conception, Luke gives us, in chapter two, an excellent record concerning cer tain aspects of the Man-Savior's human life. Luke describes His genuine human birth according to the law of God's creation of man so that He might be a Man-Savior for the salvation of man. He gives an account of His physical circumcision accord ing to the law of God's ordination (2:21-24) so that He might be the legal seed of Abraham (Gen. 17:9-14), to be the One in whom the promise of God to Abraham—"in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 12:3)—as the gospel preached to him (Gal. 3:8), could be carried out for all the nations (Gal. 3:14). In this chapter we see the Man-Savior's human growth according to the law of human life (v. 40), so that He might be a perfect Man to express God for the fulfillment of God's redemptive plan. Finally, Luke records the Lord's proper boyhood, the boyhood of the One who grew in the interest of God in relation to His deity as the Son of the Father (vv. 40-52),