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THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
old or younger. It was thus that he hoped to destroy the newborn King of the Jews.
The soldiers entered Bethlehem, tore the babies from their mothers' arms, and murdered them. Thus was ful lled the prophecy of Jeremias, who said, ''A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and wo ld not be com­ forted, because they are not.''
Soon after this, Herod died, and again the angel appeared to Joseph, saying, ''Arise, and take the Child and His Mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the Child.''
At the word of the angel, Joseph returned to the