Matthew Henry (1662—1714) was a Puritan pastor, author, and theologian. Henry is best known, of course, for his six-volume commentary on the Bible.
In his Commentary on Luke 2, Matthew Henry writes:
LUKE 2:8-20
The meanest circumstances of Christ’s humiliation were all along attended with some discoveries of his glory, to balance them, and take off the offence of them; for even when he humbled himself God did in some measure exalt him and give him earnests of his future exaltation. When we saw him wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, we were tempted to say, “Surely …