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Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he was a criminal, not the happy mother of the glorious Mes-siah. And they were to flee out of the Holy Laud itself, into Egypt, theold land of bondage ! Unseen, unnoticed, the flight from Bethlehem was made. They were butstrangers there; and very few, if any, of the inhabitants would miss thestrangers from Nazareth, who had settled among them so lately, and whohad now gone away again with as little observation as they came. Herod very soon came to the conclusion that the wise men, for somereason or other unknown to him, did not intend to obey his orders. Theycould very well have made the journey to Bethlehem in a day,.and whenhe found that they did not return to him, he was exceeding wroth ; for kingsdo not often meet with those who disregard their invitations. He quicklymade up his mind what to do. If the wise men had brought him wordwhere the child was, he would have been content to slay only him; now hemust destroy all the infants under two years of age, to make sure of crushing56
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He came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them.—Luke ii. 5i. 882 The Wonderful Life. 883 that life which threatened his crown. There was ample margin in the twoyears for any mistake on his own part, or that of the wise men. The childmust perish if he put to death all the little ones of the unhappy village. We wonder if the news reached Mary in her place of refuge and safetyin Egypt. Whilst she went about the streets of Bethlehem she must haveseen many of those little children in their mothers arms; their laughter andtheir cries had rung in her ears; and with her newly-opened mothers eyesshe had compared them with her own blessed child, and loved them dearlyfor his sake. Now she would know the dire meaning of these words, InRama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourn-ing, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, becausethey are not. A,mystery of grief began to mingle itself with the mysteryof her Sons life. In her heart, which was forev

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