Innocents, Massacre of, by Herod

Innocents, Massacre of, by Herod

(Mat 2:16). It has been thought strange that Josephus should not mention this atrocity (see Volborth, Veram esse Infanticidii Bethlehem. hait. Gttingen, 1788); but it was one only, and that a local one, of his many acts of tyranny and cruelty. SEE HEROD THE GREAT.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature