HISTORY OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 52, 25 April 1874, Page 13

HISTORY OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.

By the Abbe J. E. Da.hbas. (Translated from the French for the N*W ZEAXiND Ta»i.«t.)

24.— THH BETUJHf OTf THSEOIX FAMILY-— ABMYAITOB ABCHHIATOI

"M^whiS;' continues St. Matthew, "an Angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt, sayihg: 'Afise, and take tha r child and his mother and eomeinto, the land of Israel, for they are dead* that, sought the life of the child.' Joseph, rising up, tjwk the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But hearing that'A*ohej»u« reigned in Judea, in the room of Herod his father, he i was afraid to goihither ; and 1 bring warned in sleep, returned into the 'quartei* of Galilee. And coming, he^w©ltm^ty called Naaaretb; .that itmigUVbe fulfilled which was said by the PropHet^hat he shall ibecaUeda^ante." (1). The Gospel Wative, in its simpleraad •». SKy t fite witjh an admirable p^isioa, into the detail of Seal e*eaii related by the hisWian Josephs Ttursudden fear twStoO* ppssesion, of the sOul of the pafrtereb*t hi. arrival on the SoSieraTof. Judea, were but too well juß«fied-by tbe troubles that Swd^ithe death of Herod- After having rendered the ast f *Ti his father, Archelaus, taMngi *d»titage, like a skilful SS*n,^ national custom of the Hebrews^ the people • CXfe**, with a maghinb9U.be truly regal. The whole city of Jerusalem reUnded with cries of py -, when the^ouug P"™» "** ud ,to th* Temple, and took his seat on the throne of gold wh^oh had .bJenprepar&d.forhimy the e U thaiiasm«pf the pcp B l« knew no bounds. IrohehuiVaddressed the muUiMe,,and by the affected modesty of his £ng*a£," mpieted the conquest of all heafk He thanked them for Se attachment and marks of good will winch they showed him. J^l have reason to be all the more touched by, your expressions, of affeoX'TtaV " a. the injuries my father had done to your s<*£*£ tage might have disposed you less favourably in his sons ' regard. Henceforth then, you may oount on me to reward your alacrity in uw sot?SJS a -Stable manner." He adde*. however that he would absSS a? present from the name of King. » I have already^ refu^d ; ' She, "the diadem which the army would have put on me .t Jericho Ca»ar alone has power to confer the orowa on me. Wlieu I have recived it fro<n his hands, my conduct w.ll prove to you the ScUon I bear voa ; all my effort, will tend to repair the misfortunes oftue preced^ reign, and to secure to you in the future, prosperity, happiness and peace." _

(1). Matth., II 1 28.