Emphasis Preaching Journal
Begin to greet thy mother...
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"Begin to greet thy mother with a smile, O baby-boy! ten months of weariness For thee she bore ..."
So wrote the Roman poet Virgil, who lived in the century before Christ was born. In the years after Christ was born, Christian writers interpreted this poem as a prophecy about Christ. When John pondered the birth of that child on the first Christmas, he wrote: "God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not die but have eternal life" (John 3:16, TEV).
So wrote the Roman poet Virgil, who lived in the century before Christ was born. In the years after Christ was born, Christian writers interpreted this poem as a prophecy about Christ. When John pondered the birth of that child on the first Christmas, he wrote: "God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not die but have eternal life" (John 3:16, TEV).
