For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Ver. 11. A Saviour] The Greek word is so emphatic (as Cicero witnesseth) that other tongues can hardly find a fit word to express it. The Grecians delivered by Flaminius, rang out Σωτηρ, Σωτηρ, with such a courage, that the birds, astonished, fell to the earth.