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while the babe was still in the stable (Luke ii. 4-7) shows
the importance of the miracle.
Another miracle connected with the birth of Christ is
the fact, or the fiction, that after all those demonstrations at
the Court of Herod and in the educated classes at Jerusalem,
nobody knew the address of the Holy Family; and that this
mystifying ignorance cost the massacre by Herod of hundreds
of infants at Bethlehem and its suburbs. The last but not the
least miracle insinuated in this narrative is the fulfillment of
another prophecy from Jeremiah (xxxi. 15), where Rachel is
represented as weeping and lamenting over the slaughter of
the Ephraimites at Ramah and not at Bethlehem, and this, too,
some seven hundred years ago, when the descendants of
Rachel were deported into Assyria while she herself was dead
the importance of the miracle.
Another miracle connected with the birth of Christ is
the fact, or the fiction, that after all those demonstrations at
the Court of Herod and in the educated classes at Jerusalem,
nobody knew the address of the Holy Family; and that this
mystifying ignorance cost the massacre by Herod of hundreds
of infants at Bethlehem and its suburbs. The last but not the
least miracle insinuated in this narrative is the fulfillment of
another prophecy from Jeremiah (xxxi. 15), where Rachel is
represented as weeping and lamenting over the slaughter of
the Ephraimites at Ramah and not at Bethlehem, and this, too,
some seven hundred years ago, when the descendants of
Rachel were deported into Assyria while she herself was dead