...his life. To effect this design, he barbarously commanded all the male children to be put to death that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under. The grief of the mothers of those massacred children, is described and personified by weeping Rachel,...

...be just ripe and ready (barring dreams) to be murdered when he was exactly " two years old," with " all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, under" that аде. And thus Herod might shew the Jews how silly a tiling it was for them to suppose...

...Matthew is express on this point ; namely, that Herod did not act upon any random assumption ; but, " according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men." (li. 1C.) it would appear certain, from this text alone, that the Magi did not reach Jerusalem until...

...sons, and of his wife, he consummates his guilt, by an act of barbarity still more atrocious. " He sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and all the coasts thereof, from two years old, and under, according to the time which he had diligently...

...killed all the babes of Bethlehem, this young king's reign also should soon determine. He, therefore, " sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently...

...killed all the babes of Bethlehem, this young king's reign also should soon determine. He, therefore, " sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently...

...fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I call» ed my Son. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the...under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. Then, was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,...

...assertion upon what is said in ver. 16, that Herod sent and slew all the children in and about Bethlehem, from two years old and under, according to the time...which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Whence they infer Christ to have been two years old at the time of the wise men's arrival at Jerusalem....

...greatly enraged; and sent and slew alt the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had learnt exactly from the Magians. 17 Then was fulfilled the word by the firophet Jeremiah, saying, 18...

...fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. 16 IT Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the...which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. 17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, 18 In Rama was there a voice...