Luke 2:11

a Saviour It is a curious fact that -Saviour" and -Salvation," so common in St Luke and St Paul (in whose writings they occur forty-four times), are comparatively rare in the rest of the New Testament. -Saviour" only occurs in John 4:42; 1 John 4:14; and six times in 2 Pet. and Jude; -salvation" only in John 4:22, and thirteen times in the rest of the N. T.

Christ the Lord "God hath made that same Jesus whom ye crucified both Lord and Christ," Acts 2:36; Philippians 2:11. -Christ" or -Anointed" is the Greek equivalent of Messiah. In the Gospels it is almost invariably an appellative, -the Christ." But as time advanced it was more and more used without the article as a proper name. Our Lord was -anointed" with the Holy Spirit as Prophet, Priest and King.

the Lord In the lower sense the word is used as a mere title of distinction; in the higher sense it is (as in the LXX.) the equivalent of the Hebrew -Jehovah" the ineffable name. "We preach Christ Jesus the Lord," 2 Corinthians 4:5 (see Philippians 2:11; Romans 14:9; 1 Corinthians 8:6; "No one can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost," 1 Corinthians 12:3).