. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . Church of the Nativity, licthlehem, said to enclose the birthplaceof the Saviour made a law that every family must go to the city ortown from which they or their fathers had come, andthere give their names to the officers who were makingthe roll of the people. Those who were living in Jeru-salem, and had come from Shechem or Joppa or Caesarea,must journey to one of these places and there maketheir report; those who were living in Nazareth andhad come, or their parents before them had come, from56. The shepherds came to me .siaoie, (ipenea me aoor
. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . Church of the Nativity, licthlehem, said to enclose the birthplaceof the Saviour made a law that every family must go to the city ortown from which they or their fathers had come, andthere give their names to the officers who were makingthe roll of the people. Those who were living in Jeru-salem, and had come from Shechem or Joppa or Caesarea,must journey to one of these places and there maketheir report; those who were living in Nazareth andhad come, or their parents before them had come, from56. The shepherds came to me .siaoie, (ipenea me aoor and found just what tJieangel said they would see, a tiny babe lying in the manger. ft trije C!)ilb=mins in ^i^ Crable any other place, must go to their home-town, howeverfar it might be, and in that place be enrolled or writtenupon the list of names. There is no reason to suppose that Mary, althoughherself sprung from the family of David, was compelledto make this journey to Bethlehem with her Roman laws took very little notice of women,unless they were rich women who could be could go alone to Bethlehem, and there haveboth their names written upon the Ust. But at oncea thought came to Mary, and she said to her husband: ^You shall not make the journey to Bethlehemalone. I will go with you. We are not told why the young wife was resolvedto go with her husband on the long journey, but thereason may have been this: Mary knew that she wasto have a son, and the time for his coming was nownear at hand. She knew, too
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