Rambles in Bible lands . itsfinal and complete significance. Herod, the Edomiteusurper, in his cruel rage and fear at the birth ofIsraels legitimate, long-foretold, and glorious King,making a vain endeavour to destroy Him, slew allthe children that were in Bethlehem, and on all theborders thereof, from two years old and under. Thenwas fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah theprophet, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation,and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping forher children, and would not be comforted, becausethey are It would seem, from Matthewsclaiming the fulfil
Rambles in Bible lands . itsfinal and complete significance. Herod, the Edomiteusurper, in his cruel rage and fear at the birth ofIsraels legitimate, long-foretold, and glorious King,making a vain endeavour to destroy Him, slew allthe children that were in Bethlehem, and on all theborders thereof, from two years old and under. Thenwas fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah theprophet, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation,and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping forher children, and would not be comforted, becausethey are It would seem, from Matthewsclaiming the fulfilment of this prophecy, that Bethlehemmust have been known also as Rama, or Ramah, inhis day, as also in that of Jeremiah. Ram, in Hebrew,means high, and in one form or another—Ram,Ramah, Ramallah, &c.—occurs all over Palestineapplied to places seated on hills. Not long after passing Rachels Tomb we arriveat Bethlehem, finely seated on high ground, a large and 1 Gen. xxxv. 16-20. 2 Matt. ii. 16-18; Jer. xxxi. JERUSALEM TO BEER-SHEBA 165 important village, its most conspicuous building being theChurch of the Nativity. Why the place of our Lordsbirth should be shown in a cave in this so-called churchof the Nativity it is difficult to imagine, when we areexpressly told of the Magi that when they came into thehouse, they saw the young child with Mary His mother,and fell down and worshipped Superstition isvery fond of dirty caves, as may be well seen herein Palestine. The village house of Bible lands consists of oneroom, about eighteen feet square and some seven feethigh. In the plains, as we have said, it is mostly builtof sundried clay brick, but here, in these rocky mountains,of the stone which is everywhere to be had on thesurface. The roof is composed of rafters of wood,often of palm, oak, or terebinth, with cross-piecesover these, and above boughs of trees. Over this againearth and stones are placed a foot deep, and on thetop clay mud rolled, which bakes to a pot
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