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shook and trembled at the news of the birth of a new king;
that only an incoherent passage in the writings of the Prophet
Micah (v. 2) could solve the problem of the locality where
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the nativity had taken place; and finally that the astrologers
were informed by God in a dream not to return to Herod,
are indeed some wonderful miracles which only the Chris-
tian superstition can swallow. The royal retinue of the pil-
grims proceeds to Bethlehem only at a few miles' distance
from Jerusalem, and, lo! the old guiding star again appears
and leads them on until it stops exactly above the spot where
the infant was born. The prodigious rapidity with which
the long journey from Persia to Bethlehem was completed
that only an incoherent passage in the writings of the Prophet
Micah (v. 2) could solve the problem of the locality where
66
the nativity had taken place; and finally that the astrologers
were informed by God in a dream not to return to Herod,
are indeed some wonderful miracles which only the Chris-
tian superstition can swallow. The royal retinue of the pil-
grims proceeds to Bethlehem only at a few miles' distance
from Jerusalem, and, lo! the old guiding star again appears
and leads them on until it stops exactly above the spot where
the infant was born. The prodigious rapidity with which
the long journey from Persia to Bethlehem was completed