From Nave’s Topical Bible
Swaddle
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 5Passages listed
- 4Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (Wrapping, bundling)
- Of childrenJob 38:9Lamentations 2:22Ezekiel 16:4Luke 2:7Luke 2:12
The passages, in Bible order (5)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 5 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Job 38:9
when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
Commentary on Job 38:91 voice
When I made the cloud the garment thereof - Referring to the garment in which the new-born infant is wrapped up. This image is one of great beauty. It is that of the vast ocean just coming into being, with a cloud resting upon it and covering it. Thick darkness envelopes it, and it is swathed in mists; compare Gen 1:2,” And darkness was upon the face of the deep.” The time here referred to is that before the light of the sun arose upon the earth, before the dry land appeared, and before annuals and people had been formed.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Lamentations 2:22
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
Commentary on Lamentations 2:221 voice
Thou hast called, as in a solemn day, my terrors round about,.... Terrible enemies, as the Chaldeans; these came at the call of God, as soldiers at the command of their general; and in as great numbers as men from all parts of Judea flocked to Jerusalem on any of the three solemn feasts of passover, pentecost, and tabernacles.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Ezekiel 16:4
On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
Commentary on Ezekiel 16:42 voices
Its very life was a miracle (Ex 1:15-22). navel . . . not cut--Without proper attention to the navel cord, the infant just born is liable to die. neither . . . washed in water to supple thee--that is, to make the skin soft. Rather, "for purification"; from an Arabic root [MAURER].
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
It follows: And you were not washed in water for salvation. The bodies of babies, as soon as they are born from the womb, are usually washed with water: so too does the spiritual generation require the saving washing. For no one is clean from filth, not even if his life were of only one day. And in the Psalms we read: In iniquities I was conceived, and in sins my mother conceived me. The second birth dissolves the first birth.
Jerome· COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 4:16.4-5Patristic
- Luke 2:7
And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Commentary on Luke 2:72 voices
IT WAS NEEDFUL that it should be distinctly proven, beyond all dispute, that our Lord sprang out of Judah. It was necessary, also, that he should be born in Bethlehem-Ephratah, according to the word of the Lord which he spake by his servant Micah. But how could a public recognition of the lineage of an obscure carpenter and an unknown maiden be procured? What interest could the keepers of registers be supposed to take in two such humble persons?
Charles Spurgeon· The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 485: “No Room for Christ in the Inn” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition), 1862
It was here that a homeless couple had crept underground with the cattle when the doors of the crowded caravanserai had been shut in their faces.
G.K. Chesterton· The Everlasting Man, Part II Ch. 1 "The God in the Cave", 1925
- Luke 2:12
And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
Commentary on Luke 2:122 voices
The shepherds had found their Shepherd.
G.K. Chesterton· The Everlasting Man, Part II Ch. 1 "The God in the Cave", 1925
The infancy of the Saviour was impressed upon us, both by frequent heraldings of Angels and testimonies of Evangelists, that we might be the more deeply penetrated in our hearts by what has been done for us. And we may observe, that the sign given us of the newborn Saviour was, that He would be found not clothed in Tyrian purple, but wrapped in poor swaddling clothes, not laying on gilded couches, but in a manger.
Bede· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic