“We see, at the same time, what sort of beginning the life of the Son of God had, and in what cradle He was placed. (Luke 2:7)
Such was His condition at His birth, because He had taken upon Him our flesh for this purpose, that He might ‘empty Himself‘ (Phil. 2:7) on our account.
When He was thrown into a stable, and placed in a manger, and a lodging refused Him among men, it was that heaven might be opened to us, not as a temporary lodging, but as our eternal country and inheritance, and that angels might receive us into their abode.”
-John Calvin, Ed. William Pringle, Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists Matthew, Mark, and Luke, vol. 1 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2024), 1: 112. Calvin is commenting on Luke 2:1-7.
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