How did Herod try to make up for his crimes?
38. Who had become Emperor of Rome?
39. What was the state of all the world?
40. What general expectation prevailed?
41. What had Augustus been told at a heathen temple?
42. What prophecy was fulfilled by Judea having an Edomite king?
--_Gen_. xlix. 10.
43. How long was it since the walls of Jerusalem had been built?
LESSON XX.
1. In what year of the world did Augustus number his people?
2. What was the object of Augustus?
3. What was the real cause of this taxation?
4. What prophecies had foretold that the Messiah should be born of a
woman?--Gen. in. 15.--Is. vii. 14.--Jer. xxxi. 22.--Micah, v. 3.
5. How was Bethlehem fixed for His birth-place?--Micah, v. 2.
6. How was His birth foretold?--Is. ix. 6.
7. What allusion was there to His being received into a stable and
rejected by His townsmen?--Is. i. 3.
8. What were the rejoicings?
9. By what rite was He made obedient to the Law?
10. By whom had His Name been previously borne?
11. Who had prophesied of that Name?--Jer. xxiii. 6.
12. How was His presentation in the Temple foretold?--Hag.
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