{"id":3478,"date":"2025-12-29T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:42:06","slug":"unto-us-a-child-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=3478","title":{"rendered":"Unto us a child is born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At this time of year we, in the West, have remembered the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Many in the Eastern church have yet to arrive at their day of remembrance, but whether West or East whilst it is good to remember his day it is better to remember what he said when he came into the world: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. In burnt offerings and\u00a0sacrifices\u00a0for sin you had no pleasure. Then I said, \u2018Behold, I have come – In the volume of the book it is written of me – to do your will, O God.\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\nPsalm 40 (39 in the Greek<\/a>1<\/a><\/sup> from which this is taken) and Hebrews 10<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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    At this time of year we, in the West, have remembered the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Many in the Eastern church have yet to arrive at their day of remembrance, but whether West or East whilst it is good to remember his day it is better to remember what he said when he came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"vvs.7-9 \u03b8\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u1f70\u03bd \u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f20\u03b8\u03ad\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2, \u03c3\u1ff6\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03c4\u03af\u03c3\u03c9 \u03bc\u03bf\u03b9\u00b7 \u1f41\u03bb\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03ce\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u1f01\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f10\u03b6\u03ae\u03c4\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2. \u03c4\u03cc\u03c4\u03b5 \u03b5\u1f36\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd\u00b7 \u1f30\u03b4\u03bf\u1f7a \u1f25\u03ba\u03c9, \u1f10\u03bd \u03ba\u03b5\u03c6\u03b1\u03bb\u03af\u03b4\u03b9 \u03b2\u03b9\u03b2\u03bb\u03af\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b3\u03ad\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c0\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03bc\u03bf\u1fe6\u00b7 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u1fc6\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u1f78 \u03b8\u03ad\u03bb\u03b7\u03bc\u03ac \u03c3\u03bf\u03c5, \u1f41 \u0398\u03b5\u03cc\u03c2 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5, \u1f10\u03b2\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03ae\u03b8\u03b7\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03bd\u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd \u03c3\u03bf\u03c5 \u1f10\u03bd \u03bc\u03ad\u03c3\u1ff3 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03ba\u03bf\u03b9\u03bb\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5.\u00a0\",\"id\":\"5ef3d78c-319c-48cb-a2ef-33d7363b54e9\"}]"},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}