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Messianic Prophecies: Jeremiah 31: 15

 

The Slaying of the Holy Innocents

 

 

Continuing our Advent look at Messianic prophecies for this year, which we began in Advent 2011 and continued last year, the earlier posts of the series may be read here, here, here ,here, here, here, here, here , here ,  here, here, here and here, we come to Jeremiah 31: 15:

Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not.

This passage was horribly fulfilled in the slaying of the Holy Innocents.  Saint John Chrysostom elucidates the passage for us:

“But what, it may be said, has Rachel to do with Bethlehem? For it says, ‘Rachel weeping for her children.’ And what has Rama to do with Rachel? Rachel was the mother of Benjamin, and on her death, they buried her near this place. The tomb then being near, and the portion pertaining unto Benjamin her infant (for Rama was of the tribe of Benjamin), from the head of the tribe first, and next from the place of her sepulchre, he naturally denominates her young children who were massacred. Then to show that the wound that befell her was incurable and cruel, he says, “she would not be comforted because they are not.”

 

 

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philip
philip
Monday, December 16, AD 2013 6:07am

And we ask for comforts. We ask for blessings. How can we ask while we continue to add to the number of innocents lost?
God forgive US.

John
John
Tuesday, December 17, AD 2013 7:19am

Herod was paranoid and crazy when he ordered the slaughter of the Holy Innocents. What is America’s excuse?

philip
philip
Tuesday, December 17, AD 2013 8:10am

Fear!
Just like Herod!
Fear that they won’t be able to live like they want.

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