And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
Christ needed honor from the godly to balance the offense of His lowly birth and silent presentation. Simeon, a man of singular piety and communion with God, was moved by the Holy Ghost to bear witness to the child, a testimony that should have opened the priests' eyes to their Saviour, had they not been willfully blind.
AI summary
Commenting on Luke 2:25-40
And he came by the Spirit into the temple,.... By the same Spirit of God, that revealed the above to him. The Ethiopic version renders it, "the Spirit brought him into the temple": but Simeon was not brought thither, as this version seems to suggest, in such manner as Ezekiel was brought by the Spirit to Jerusalem.Eze 8:3 or as Christ was brought by Satan...
Verse 27. By the Spirit. By the direction of the Spirit. Into the temple. Into that part of the temple where the public worship was chiefly performed--into the court of the women. . The custom of the law. That is, to make an offering for purification, and to present him to God.