The Eleventh Day of Christmas: Angels and Shepherds
January 4, 2019
Alastair Roberts
Over the Christmas period, I am posting videos exploring biblical echoes and symmetries in the stories of the nativity in the gospels. In this eleventh video I discuss the angels' appearance to the shepherds.
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