that of tho and the text with t un expedient which w elsewhere in e and others the n house offer their adoration to the and to him the lions of ir native country one might wonder that there is notice of th� which it must excited in these men to find of a child in quite j t ia not f however to ihe i t by according to the notion that the li � r td child in a stable lying in the for this i to and is altogether unknown to who merely speaks of a house in which the child wiu then s v the warning given to the in it which as it were only to he wi that it been l t so lo the steps of the from and prevent whole subsequent ud await the return of the jo is bv an apparition in n to with the and its into for security v � lie s point of view thin la not attended any it i� er with the pro the au ve event is e to xi in passage the prophet in the of says h hen a child thi n i u wi and called my son out of we may venture to to mo t ex � s s t la be s ui birth op i dear lo � live � of half of ihe sentence i� object of j oe e of a � g iv are son nt oo past mn i of � l i� fact to t n not he me or iti j ig never ts a our says v lie of je into took of be lie must have ns n prophecy to christ � therefore have them ft h i i i the passage a though referring to i not the a relative to i c the of the e� h waa a of the of bat convenient method of interpretation is nut here for the would in the present ca c be external and since the only i i in the ban fact in both of a in the t which e i� r li and the altogether the return of the been delayed long for to become aware tliat tb hare no intention to with him he death of all the male children in and up o age f two near that being to the st of the as to the c of the star s the utmost interval that could ha e since the birth of t ic child � thia was beyond all tion an act of the fury for might have himself a who bad rare and costly presents was yet to be found in but even it not inconsistent with the disposition of the aged tyrant o the extent that supposed it were in any to be that so and a would be noticed by than t but neither who la very minute in his account of nor the who were in his memory give slightest of this the latter do indeed connect the of into with a scene the of which however is not but king the victims not but their story is evidently founded on a ion of the occurrence gathered from the christian history with an earlier event for alexander died years before birth of who lived in the century is the author notices the slaughter of the i and he it in a which all by the execution of who waa so lar � � in w bj iii b il t ut pi i u r s tp l l ti r� m p sl p ns i i u x jn of ua mid of a child lie j of f y with murder of uie among in t c iii tu our at the remarkable in hy reminding us the number of children of the given in o have been � iu and by remarking that among the ds of cruelty by whidi the of od was stained one would be sight of w n in j but in c i of children er few is overlooked � � it is that must liave prevented deed if really from being forgotten the v a as having been fulfilled by the murder ot whereas it to � ome thing quite namely the of the jews to and bad no kind of reference to an event lying in remote while and his are in egypt the dies and joseph is instructed by an angel who appears to him in u dream to return to his native country but as a successor in was to be feared he more precise directions in a second in to which he his abode at in under the of n i in of single chapter wc have five extraordinary an star and four for the first we already remarked one might have been not only without but with either ihe star or the from tlie bi j i from going to and by perhaps have ordained by od hut that the two last visions not united in one u a mere for the direction to joseph to to of which is made the object of n special might just aa well have been included in the such a disregard even to of in relation to the miraculous one is to refer to human to divine the of old testament passages in chapter arc crowned by tlie verse where it is said that by the settlement of the parents of at was the saying of the e s be a now this passage is not to be found in the old and unless lo ng take refuge in sa by supposing it is extracted a or book now lost they � b j xix camp iv f ji h i m w � � x vl l i l li ii i a iu wind il 