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44 THE FOUR GOSPELS. 19. But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, in Egypt,

20. Saying: Arise, and take the child, and His mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they that sought the life of the child, are dead.

21. And he arising took the child, and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

22. But hearing that Archelaus reigned in Judea, in the room of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither: and being warned in sleep, he retired into the country of Galilee.

23. And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth; that what was said by the prophets might be fulfilled: since He shall be called a Nazarite.

The plural is often used for the singular in speaking of the will of one which is put in execution by many. of his father's kingdom, which he afterwards took from him, having ban- ished him to Gaul. thousand Jews were cut to pieces in the temple, on the Paschal festival, on suspicion of seditious machinations. Joseph Antiq. I. xvii. 11. Although Joseph was assured by the angel that the original cause of fear was removed, he did not feel himself justified in encountering this new danger. The angel, in directing his return, left him to provide for his safety as prudence might suggest. 4 Literally "parts." thinks that some book which contained it has been lost. St. Jerom remarks, that Christ is called by Isaiah a flower, in Hebrew Nazir, of the root of Jesse. Several of the moderns explain it as an expression of contempt, Nazareth being a poor village. All the prophecies which mark the humiliations of Christ concur to designate him a Nazarite— that is, mean and abject. Digitized by Google
 * He was ethnarch, not king, Augustus having given him only half
 * This prince rivalled the cruelty of his father. By his orders several
 * A prophecy in these terms is nowhere found. St. Chrysostom