Historical Study of Jesus the Christ and His Mission. James E. Talmage

of these varying calculations." In an appended note the same author states: "For example: the birth of our Lord is placed in B.C. 1 by Pearson and Hug; B.C. 2 by Scalinger; B.C. 3 by Baronius and Paulus; B.C. 4 by Bengel, Wieseler, and Greswell; B.C. 5 by Usher and Petavius; B.C. 6 by Strong, Luvin, and Clark; B.C. 7 by Ideler and Sanclemente."

      FOOTNOTES:

      216. Luke 2:1; see also verses 2–4. Note 1, end of chapter.

      217. Note marginal reading, Oxford and Bagster Bibles.

218. Note 1, end of chapter.

219. Note 2, end of chapter.

220. Luke 2:6, 7.

221. Luke 2:8–14.

222. Luke 2:15.

223. Luke 2:19.

224. Luke 4:22; Matt. 13:55; Mark 6:3.

225. Gen. 17:12, 13; Lev. 12:3; compare John 7:22. Page 88.

226. Luke 2:21; compare 1:31; Matt. 1:21, 25.

227. Lev. chap. 12.

228. Exo. 12:29; 13:2, 12; 22:29, 30.

229. Numb. 8:15–18; 18:15, 16.

230. Luke 2:25; see also verse 38; Mark 15:43; compare Psa. 40:1.

231. Luke 2:29–32. These verses are known in Christian hymnology as the Nunc Dimittis; the name has reference to the first two words of the Latin version.

232. Note 3, end of chapter.

233. Matt. 2:2; read 1–10.

234. Matt. 2:5, 6; compare Micah 5:2; John 7:42.

235. Note 4, end of chapter.

236. Note 5, end of chapter.

237. Numb. 24:17.

238. B. of M., Helaman 14:5; 3 Nephi 1:21. Pp. 52, 101 and 721 herein.

239. Matt. 2:13.

240. Matt. 2:16.

241. Matt. 2:17, 18; compare Jer. 31:15.

242. Page 49.

243. B. of M., Helaman 14:2; read 1–9.

244. B. of M., 3 Nephi 1:9; read verses 4–21.

245. B. of M., 3 Nephi 1:12–21.

246. Marginal reading, Oxford and Bagster Bibles, Matt. 2:1.

247. Doc. and Cov. 20:1; compare 21:3. Note 6, end of chapter.

248. B. of M., 1 Nephi 1:4; 2:2–4.

249. B. of M., 1 Nephi 10:4.

250. B. of M., 1 Nephi 19:8; 2 Nephi 25:19.

251. B. of M., 3 Nephi 1:1.

252. "Standard Bible Dictionary," edited by Jacobus, Nourse, and Zenos, pub. by Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York and London, 1909, p. 915, article "Zedekiah."

253. Doc. and Cov. 20:1; compare 21:2

      CHAPTER 9.

       THE BOY OF NAZARETH.

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Joseph, Mary, and her Son remained in Egypt until after the death of Herod the Great, which event was made known by another angelic visitation. Their stay in the foreign land was probably brief, for Herod did not long survive the babes he had slain in Bethlehem. In the return of the family from Egypt the evangelist finds a fulfilment of Hosea's prophetic vision of what should be: "Out of Egypt have I called my son."254

It appears to have been Joseph's intention to make a home for the family in Judea, possibly at Bethlehem—the city of his ancestors and a place now even more endeared to him as the birthplace of Mary's Child—but, learning on the way that Herod's son Archelaus ruled in the place of his wicked father, Joseph modified his purpose; and, "being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene."255

While Archelaus, who appears to have been a natural heir to his infamous father's wickedness and cruelty, ruled in Judea,256 for a short time as king, then with the less exalted title of ethnarch, which had been decreed to him by the emperor, his brother Antipas governed as tetrarch in Galilee. Herod Antipas was well nigh as vicious