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Title: Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Subjects: Jesus Christ
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Here,in his after history, his three officers broke through the Phil-istine host to bring their king water from the well of hischildhood. II And hither, in the fourth century after Christ,Jerome, fleeing from persecution, lived for a quarter of a cen-tury, engaged in his great work, the composition of the Latintranslation of the Scriptures, the accepted version of the Ro-man Catholic Church. 1 In this little hamlet, for the village was an inconsiderableone, Jesus was bornf The day of his birth is unknown. TheChristmas, which by common consent is celebrated through-out Christendom as his birthday, was fixed upon by PopeJulius I. in the fourth century.** Even the year is involvedin uncertainty. We know, however, that Caesar Augustus * Luke )., 26-56 ; ii.; Matt, i., 18-25 ; ii., 1-23. t Gen. XXXV., 19. % Ruth i., 19. § 1 Sam. xvi., 1-13. II 2Sain. xxiii.,15-17. 1 Smiths Diet, of the Bible, art. Vulgate ; Diet, of Gr, and Roman Biog.,art. Hieronymus. ** Appletons Cyc., art. Christmas.
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THE NATIVITY. A.D. 1.) CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS MOTHER. ^7 was emperor of Rome,* and that Herod was drawing towardthe close of his reign as king of Judea.f )0f his mother weknow but little. She was of the tribe of Judah, belonged toa royal family, traced her genealogy back to David,); and wasconnected by marriage with one of the chief priests.§ Shewas a woman of warm heart, ardent imj^ulses, and resolutewill. This much the brief sketches of her life and characterdisclose. At the time of the annunciation, she started, withimpetuous haste and unattended, for a journey- across thecountry from Galilee to Judea to visit her cousin Elizabeth,!no slight undertaking in those days. Later, dreading lest inher sons religious zeal he should destroy himself, Avith the en-thusiasm of an invincible love she undertook to pass throughthe crowd, and, with loving comjDulsion, bring him home tothe rest which her mother-heart saw he so greatly needed.^Finally, standing with pierced and broken heart the res

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