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heaven, prophets, etc., are revealed to us in the Semitic ton-
gues (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic); and to imagine that the
celestial hosts sang in Greek to the ignorant Jewish shepherds
in the suburbs of Bethlehem would be equivalent to the
belief that such an angelic army, in the firmament above the
mountains of Kurdistan, sang a similar hymn in Japanese
for the digestion, or puzzle, of some Kurdish herdsmen!
The appearance of an angel to the humble shepherds
of Bethlehem and the annunciation of the birth of a great
Prophet that very night, and the hearing of the angelic
Hallelujah (Allilujah) by them alone and not by the haughty
priests and the scribes, is one of the innumerable miracles
recorded in the history of the people of Israel. There is
nothing in the story which might be considered to be such
gues (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic); and to imagine that the
celestial hosts sang in Greek to the ignorant Jewish shepherds
in the suburbs of Bethlehem would be equivalent to the
belief that such an angelic army, in the firmament above the
mountains of Kurdistan, sang a similar hymn in Japanese
for the digestion, or puzzle, of some Kurdish herdsmen!
The appearance of an angel to the humble shepherds
of Bethlehem and the annunciation of the birth of a great
Prophet that very night, and the hearing of the angelic
Hallelujah (Allilujah) by them alone and not by the haughty
priests and the scribes, is one of the innumerable miracles
recorded in the history of the people of Israel. There is
nothing in the story which might be considered to be such