6. The Year of Christ's Birth.--In treating this topic Dr. Charles F. Deems (_The Light of the Nations_, p. 28), after giving careful consideration of the estimates, calculations, and assumptions of men who have employed many means in their investigation and reach only discordant results says: "It is annoying to see learned men use the same apparatus of calculation and reach the most diverse results. It is bewildering to attempt a reconciliation of these varying calculations." In an appended note the same author states: "For example: the birth of our Lord is placed in B.C. 1 by Pearson and Hug; B.C. 2 by Scalinger; B.C. 3 by Baronius and Paulus; B.C. 4 by Bengel, Wieseler, and Greswell; B.C. 5 by Usher and Petavius; B.C. 6 by Strong, Luvin, and Clark; B.C. 7 by Ideler and Sanclemente." FOOTNOTES: [216] Luke 2:1; see also verses 2-4. Note 1, end of chapter. [217] Note marginal reading, Oxford and Bagster Bibles. [218] Note 1, end of chapter. [219] Note 2, end of chapter. [220] Luke 2:6, 7. [221] Luke 2:8-14. [222] Luke 2:15. [223] Luke 2:19. [224] Luke 4:22; Matt. 13:55; Mark 6:3. [225] Gen. 17:12, 13; Lev. 12:3; compare John 7:22. Page 88. [226] Luke 2:21; compare 1:31; Matt. 1:21, 25. [227] Lev. chap. 12. [228] Exo. 12:29; 13:2, 12; 22:29, 30. [229] Numb. 8:15-18; 18:15, 16. [230] Luke 2:25; see also verse 38; Mark 15:43; compare Psa. 40:1. [231] Luke 2:29-32. These verses are known in Christian hymnology as the Nunc Dimittis; the name has reference to the first two words of the Latin version. [232] Note 3, end of chapter. [233] Matt. 2:2; read 1-10. [234] Matt. 2:5, 6; compare Micah 5:2; John 7:42. [235] Note 4, end of chapter. [236] Note 5, end of chapter. [237] Numb. 24:17. [238] B. of M., Helaman 14:5; 3 Nephi 1:21. Pp. 52, 101 and 721 herein. [239] Matt. 2:13. [240] Matt. 2:16. [241] Matt. 2:17, 18; compare Jer. 31:15. [242] Page 49. [243] B. of M., Helaman 14:2; read 1-9. [244] B. of M., 3 Nephi 1:9; read verses 4-21. [245] B. of M., 3 Nephi 1:12-21. [246] Marginal reading, Oxford and Bagster Bibles, Matt. 2:1. [247] Doc. and Cov. 20:1; compare 21:3. Note 6, end of chapter. [248] B. of M., 1 Nephi 1:4; 2:2-4. [249] B. of M., 1 Nephi 10:4. [250] B. of M., 1 Nephi 19:8; 2 Nephi 25:19. [251] B. of M., 3 Nephi 1:1. [252] "Standard Bible Dictionary," edited by Jacobus, Nourse, and Zenos, pub. by Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York and London, 1909, p. 915, article "Zedekiah." [253] Doc. and Cov. 20:1; compare 21:2 CHAPTER 9. THE BOY OF NAZARETH. Joseph, Mary, and her Son remained in Egypt until after the death of Herod the Great, which event was made known by another angelic visitation. Their stay in the foreign land was probably brief, for Herod did not long survive the babes he had slain in Bethlehem. In the return of the family from Egypt the evangelist finds a fulfilment of Hosea's prophetic vision of what should be: "Out of Egypt have I called my son."[254]