Some More of The Same Old Thing?

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:14 One cannot help but be struck by the simplicity with which Matthew records the birth of Christ: “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise.” Indeed a simple statement but one filled with profound truths. The feeling strikes me sometimes, however, that the simplicity of the statement tends to make us think of the incarnation as...