For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ; the Lord. Every word here contains transporting intelligence from heaven. For whom provided? "To you" - shepherds, Israel, mankind. Who is provided? "A SAVIOUR." What is He? "CHRIST THE LORD." How introduced into the world? He "is born" - as said the prophet, "Unto us a child is born" (Isaiah 9:6); "the Word was made flesh" (John 1:14). When? "This Day." Where? "In the city of David." In the predicted line, and at the predicted spot, where prophecy bade us look for Him and faith accordingly expected Him. How dear to us should be these historical mornings of our faith, with the loss of which all historical Christianity vanishes! By means of them how many have been kept from making shipwreck, and have attained to a certain admiration of Christ, before yet they have fully "beheld His glory"! Nor does the angel say that One is born who shall be a Saviour, but He "is born a Saviour;" adding, "which is CHRIST THE LORD." 'Magnificent appellation!' exclaims devout Bengel. Alford notices that these words come together nowhere else, and sees no way of understanding this "Lord" but as corresponding to the Hebrew Yahweh (H3068).