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33. Who was Herod's wife?
34. Who was High Priest?
35. What crimes did Herod's jealousy of the royal line lead him to commit?
36. How were the High Priests appointed after the murder of Aristobulus?
37. 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. x.x.xi. 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. ii. 7 and 9.
13. How was Simeon's greeting of Him foretold?--Is. xxv. 9.
14. How had He been marked out to the eastern nations as a Star?--Numb.
xxiv. 17.
15. What predictions were there of the coming and the gifts of the eastern sages?--Ps. lxxii. 10-15.--Cant. iii. 6.--Is. lx. 3.
16. How had the ma.s.sacre of the holy Innocents been predicted?--Jer.
x.x.xi. 15, 16, 17.
17. How had the flight and return from Egypt been foreshown?--Hos. xi.
1.
18. What was Herod's last crime?
19. What children did he leave?
20. Who first succeeded him?
21. Why was Archelaus deposed?
22. How was Palestine divided?
23. Who governed Judea?
24. What regulations for the Roman empire were made by Augustus?
25. What languages were everywhere spoken? 26. Who succeeded Augustus, and in what year?
27. What were the predictions of our Lord's childhood?--_Is_. vii.
15.--liii. 2.
28. How had David declared the wisdom He showed in the Temple?--_Ps_.
cxix. 99, 100.
29. Mention the prophecies of His forerunner?--_Is_. xl. 3.--_Mal_. iv.
5, 6.
30. How had baptism with water been already employed?
31. How did our Lord sanctify baptism?
32. What had been the object of the Law which St. John brought to a point?
33. How did He show how the sins of which His disciples were sensible might be removed?
34. Who were the first disciples?
35. Whom did they acknowledge in our Lord?--_Deut_. xviii. 15.