Then took he him up in his arms and blessed God and said Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
Then took he him up in his arms - the same Spirit that drew him there revealing to him at once the glory of that blessed Babe. Now, since all that he uttered might as well have been simply pronounced over the Child, there is to be seen in this act of taking Him into his arms a most affecting, personal, and, so to speak, palpable appropriation of this newborn, unconscious, helpless Babe, as "all his salvation and all his desire," which it were a pity we should miss.
And blessed God, and said,