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 in silencing all the heathen oracles at his birth, of which the Pagan authors took great notice; and it is related that the oracles of Apollo was often heard to complain of the Hebrew child that was born, and to cry, “Wo is me, lament with me, for the hour of giving answers to them who addressed my altars, is now taken from me.’’

Q. What became of Herod after his persecuting of Christ in his infancy, and slaying the children in Bethlehem?

A. He wore out his miserable life, and was in continual fear of his own wife and sons, who he afterwards cruelly murdered. He fell into grief and desperation, by reason of a loathsome and incurable disease, of which he died, having attempted to stab himself, but was prevented by the by-standers.

Q. Do you remember what is said to have become of Arehelaus, his eldest son, who was a terror to Joseph when he returned from Egypt?

A. He being left king by his father, Herod, yet Augustus would not confirm the succession, but instead of king, made him governor only of the fourth part of his dominions; and afterwards seizing on all his estate, he was banished into France, where he died miserably.

Q. What became of Herod Antipas, brother to Arhelaus, who put John Baptist to death, and scoffed at our Saviour when he was brought before him?

A. Herod, with his concubine, before our Savior’s passion, was both deposed by the Emperor Cejus, upon accusation of Agrippa, his nearest kinsman, and contumelously banished into France, and afterwards into the desert places of Spain, where they wandered about in great misery, abandoned of all men, and ended their wretched lives.