Can you imagine Linus from Peanuts speaking with a Scottish brogue for the story of Jesus birth?
🙂
6. And sae it was, that while they war thar, the days was fulfilled for her to bring forth.
7. And she brocht forth her son – her first-born – and row’t him in a barrie-coat, and laid him i’ the manger, for that there was nae room for them i’ the inn.
8. And thar war in the same kintra side herds bidin i’ the fields, and keepin gaird ower their flocks by nicht.
9. And sae ! an Angel o’ the Lord cam till them, and the glorie o’ the Lord glintit roond aboot them ; and they war sair gliff’d.
10. And the Angel said, ” Be-na gliff’d ; for I bring ye gude tidins o’ muckle joy to the hail warld !
11. ” For thar is born t’ye this day, in Dauvid’s toun, a Saviour, wha is the Anointit Lord.
12. ” And here is the token for ye ; ye’se fin’ the bairn row’t in a barrie-coat, lyin in a manger. ”
13. And a’ at ance there was wi’ the Angel a thrang o’ Heeven’s host, praisin God, and sayin,
14. ” Glorie to God i’ the heighest heights, and on the yirth peace ! Gude wull to Men !”
I began to have a new kind of apprehensions and ideas of Christ, and the work of redemption, and the glorious way of salvation by Him. An inward, sweet sense of these things, at times, came into my heart; and my soul was led away in pleasant views and contemplations of them. And my mind was greatly engaged to spend my time in reading and meditating on Christ, on the beauty and excellency of His person, and the lovely way of salvation by free grace in Him.
Jonathan Edwards