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"And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn" (Luke 2:7). swad�dle /--swɒdl/[swod-l] verb, -dled, -dling, noun
�verb (used with object) 1. to bind (an infant, esp. a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement; wrap tightly with clothes. As a paterfamilias I can testify that newborn babies love to be swaddled. I imagine the womb is a tight spot in those last couple of months and swaddling reminds them of home.
continued at:Blog of the Dormition [ holydormition.blogspot.com]
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JOHN RUSSELL: My wife's Italian family used to bind the legs of the newborn because they believed that this would make their legs straight. My mother-in-law--may she rest in peace--only did that for her first born and its the family joke that she's the only one with bowed legs as an adult.  BOB
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I think they are a prefiguration of his death and being burried in the tomb. Hence a sign of the resurrection.
Stephanos I
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From the post linked above: Some have observed that swaddling clothes and death shrouds... have a similar appearance. "And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid" (Luke 23:53). The swaddling clothes, then, prefigure the burial shroud; they remind us why He was born.
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In the Wisdom of Solomon, the author (King Solomon?) refers to being dressed in swaddling clothes. Is it a Royal Custom? http://www.newadvent.org/bible/wis007.htm
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In the Wisdom of Solomon, the author (King Solomon?) refers to being dressed in swaddling clothes. Is it a Royal Custom? No, babies of all classes were put in swaddling in Europe right up to the 20th century. There are probably places that still do it.
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