The Prophet's words were to give hope to a nation (and to the entire world) which was to come under judgment of God. He comforts them by saying, "To us a child is born." Very well, but children were born ... .
And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn ... For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord ... ....
Growing up Judaean in Turbulent Times, that carol started to sound jarringly wrong in terms of his family’s actual circumstances at the time he was born ... against Rome shortly after Jesus was born.
Before little Ryu was born, he developed outside his mom’s womb, hidden by a basketball-sized ovarian cyst — a dangerous situation so rare that his doctors plan to write about the case for a medical journal.