Jeremy. Jeremiah. This quotation is taken from Jeremiah 31:15. The word "fulfilled," here, is evidently taken in the sense that the words …

Our Prince steps along a pathway paved with prophecies. Yet see what trouble attends His early days! The weeping prophet foretells the wailing over…

St. John Chrysostom: The Evangelist, by this history of so bloody a massacre, having filled the reader with horror, now again …

To Matthew, the massacre fulfills Jer 31:15. This text probably refers to the deportation of Judah and Benjamin in 587–586 B. C. Nebuzaradan, comma…

Ver. 17, 18. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken By the slaughter of the infants at Bethlehem was literally accompli…

Herod killed all the male children, not only in Bethlehem, but in all the villages of that city. Unbridled wrath, armed with an unlawful power, oft…

It was discu ed above how the Wise Men bore witne to Christ being born; now, however, it is discu ed how the Holy Innocents bear witne , not by spe…