In the second chapter of Matthew's
Gospel, we read not only of the birth of Jesus Christ, but also
of the reception given to him. Reception on one hand of the
wise men who saw the star in the east and came and followed
until they found the Christ whom they worshipped. But also the
reaction of Herod, the scribes, the priests, and all Israel to
this king born in their midst. The reaction of Herod, full of
hatred for one that he saw as a threat to his rule, his determination
to destroy him, his pretense that he wished to worship him,
and the Lord's preservation of his son in sending him with his
parents into Egypt from whence he returned when Herod died. read from verse one now when
jesus was born in bethlehem of judea in the days of herod the
king behold there came wise men from the east to jerusalem saying
where is he that is born king of the jews for we have seen
his star in the east and i come to worship him When Herod the
king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem
with him. And when he had gathered all
the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded
of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him,
In Bethlehem of Judea. For thus it is written by the
prophet, And thou, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not
the least among the princes of Judah, for out of these shall
come a governor that shall rule my people Israel.' Then Herod,
when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently
what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem
and said, Go and search diligently for the young child. And when
ye have found him, bring me word again that I may come and worship
him also. When they had heard the king,
they departed. And lo, the star which they saw
in the east went before them, till it came and stood over where
the young child was. When they saw the star, they
rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come
into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother,
and fell down and worshipped him. And when he had opened their
treasures, they presented unto him gifts. gold and frankincense
and myrrh and being warned of God in a dream that they should
not return to Herod they departed into their own country another
way and when they were departed behold the angel of the Lord
appeareth to Joseph in a dream saying arise and take the young
child and his mother and flee into Egypt and be thou there
until I bring thee word For Herod will seek the young child to
destroy him. When he arose, he took the young
child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt, and
was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of
Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod, when he saw that
he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wrath, and sent
forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in
all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according
to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then
was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
saying, In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping. and great mourning, Rachel weeping
for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are
not. But when Herod was dead, behold,
an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go
into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the
young child's life. And he arose and took the young
child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But
when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room
of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither. Notwithstanding,
being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts
of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city
called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by the prophets. He shall be called and Nazarene. Verse 13, When the wise men had
departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared after Joseph
in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his
mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring
thee word, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night,
and departed into Egypt. and was there until the death
of Herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord
by the prophet saying out of Egypt have I called my son. Out of Egypt have I called my
son. Now in this account we notice
a number of things. Firstly this account in Matthew
commencing with the birth of Jesus records the seeking of
him by those wise men from the east and they're coming to see
the child but there's no mention of the shepherds. We have a gospel
we read of the shepherds coming to see Christ and often when
people speak of the birth of Christ they have this image of
wise men and shepherds gathered around but that is inaccurate,
that's not recorded in the gospels. and the timing is not the same. The shepherds came at his birth.
The wise men came later. We know from the fact that Herod's
diligence discovered that the child would have been aged up
to two years old. So he slew all the children up
to two years old. So when the wise men came to
Christ, The child had been born sometime before, anything up
to two years. And this period of time between
the wise men coming to find him and he then going down into Egypt
and then returning to Israel could have been some time. So there's no shepherds and wise
men there at the same time. And each gospel records that
which is appropriate for the presentation of Christ that it
would present elsewhere we read that the shepherds as in pictorially
the shepherds picturing those messengers sent of God those
preachers those who shepherd the sheep coming to worship he
who is the good shepherd whereas here in Matthew's gospel We see
wise men coming before a king. We see the birth of the Messiah,
the king of the Jews. And those who were given wisdom
of God to seek out this king. And their reception to him was
that they would travel a great distance to find he who is born
the king of the Jews to worship him. They wanted to find him. They wanted to worship him. They
sought him. They knew who he was. They knew
how great he was at his coming. Yet when Herod and all those
in Jerusalem heard of the birth of this child, they were greatly
troubled. Herod sought to destroy him. Herod hated him. Herod, the scribes,
the priests and all Jerusalem sought to destroy him, they rejected
him. Whilst we see through this account
the preservation of God, of His Son, that man could not lay a
finger upon Him until His appointed hour. Yes, in the end Christ
would be taken by the Jews and crucified, but not until that
hour had come. Yet from the very beginning,
from his very birth, as a young child, there were those who sought
to kill him. There were those who sought to
destroy him. He was rejected by his own. He was born in Israel, born in
Bethlehem, and the king of the Jews at the time, Herod, and
the people rejected him. They who should have received
him rejected him. It wasn't as though the scribes
and the priests had no understanding. When Herod asked them where Christ
should be born, they told him, in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus
it is written by the prophet, and thou Bethlehem in the land
of Judah art not the least among the princes of Judah for out
of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel
these scribes and priests knew the scriptures they knew the
prophets they knew the promises and they knew that Christ the
Savior should be born in Bethlehem and here is a child born in Bethlehem,
and instead of receiving this and rejoicing in this, Herod
sought to destroy Him. They who should have received
Messiah at His coming rejected Him. They who had the Scriptures,
they who had been blessed of God, they who had all the blessings
of God in the Oracles of God, the Scriptures, the Prophets,
the priesthood, the law, the sacrifices, the temple, the land
given unto them, Jerusalem, all the blessings of God upon them
as a nation, they should have been looking for the coming of
Christ, they should have received Him and yet when He came, they
were troubled and sought to destroy Him. In this rejection of Christ,
we're reminded many years previously, of Joseph, who was rejected by his brethren,
who were jealous of the favour that he had with his father.
Jealous of him, as Herod was jealous of the coming of Christ,
and he saw him as usurping his throne. They were jealous of
Joseph and they sold him into Egypt, they threw him into a
pit, they cast him out as dead. They sought to destroy him. We'll
never see this Joseph again, this dreamer. And he was sent
off to Egypt. And here, those that should have been Christ's
brethren, Jealous of him, rejected him and cast him out. And he was taken into Egypt. Into Egypt. From whence later
he would return. In fulfilment of the prophet
of Hosea, in Hosea 11 verse 1, where the prophet wrote, out
of Egypt have I called my son. Out of Egypt have I called my
son. When Israel was a child, then I loved him and called my
son out of Egypt. God's love was set upon his people.
God's love was set upon Israel. And God's love was set upon Christ.
And like Joseph, Christ was sent into Egypt. cast out by his brethren, later
to return as their deliverer. Secondly, in connection with
Joseph of old, we see the dreams. Joseph was cast out as a dreamer. He had dreams. He had visions
granted unto him. God spake unto him. God made
promises to him. And his brethren hated these
promises, they hated what Joseph said, they were jealous of it. And here God protects his son. He protects, as it were, this
Joseph by watching over him throughout all his events. Despite every
attempt of Herod and his people to discover where Christ was,
to discover where Jesus was, to destroy this child, God watched
over him. God led the wise men to him. And God ensured that those men
never returned to Herod. For if they had and they told
Herod where Christ was, then Herod would have sought to destroy
him. But God appeared unto them in
a dream. Being warned of God in a dream
that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their
own country another way. He appeared unto them. And they
went another way. They followed what God told them. And so, Herod could not lay a
finger on the Son of God. Likewise, when they were departed,
behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream,
saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee
into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word, for
Herod will seek the young child to destroy him." Again, another
dream to another Joseph. But again, through these dreams,
through these visions, through this communion between God and
man, God preserved his son, and brought his purposes to pass,
as pictured many years previously, in Joseph, cast out by his brethren,
sent down into Egypt, from whence he would deliver his people. Egypt, thirdly. When Israel was
a child, then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt. Joseph arose, took the young
child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt and was
there until the death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying, out of Egypt
have I called my son. Why must Christ be taken to Egypt? Why must Christ return from Egypt,
as pictured by Joseph in the past. Because of all that Egypt
stood for, both in a physical sense at the time of Joseph of
old and Moses and the Hebrews who dwelt there, and in the spiritual sense of
which Egypt is a picture. Egypt was that place that the
children of Israel found to be captivity. Rejected by his brethren,
Joseph was cast out and went to Egypt. His brethren eventually
returned under him when they were starving at a time of famine. The people then came and dwelt
in Egypt and multiplied until they were a great nation in the
midst. But the Egyptians turned against them and brought them
into captivity, brought them into bondage. And the people
of God groaned in the midst of the Egyptians. And they cried
out for deliverance until that time when God sent Moses a deliverer
and led them forth. Egypt was a place of captivity. and it's a picture of the world
and the sin in the world and the captivity that sin has brought
upon mankind in this world. Trapped in this world, trapped
by our sin, trapped by the bondage of sin. We cry out for salvation,
we cry out to be delivered. And if we're to be delivered,
then a Deliverer must come to us. He must come to us where
we are. Now Israel was a picture, the
land of Israel was a picture of the Promised Land, of the
Kingdom of God, of that place where the people of God would
be brought by their Saviour to dwell forevermore. But to be
brought there, they must be delivered from where they are, from the
captivity of sin. And that pictorially in the scriptures
is pictured by Egypt. So though born King of the Jews
in Bethlehem of Judea, Christ must be seen to be brought into
Egypt where fallen man is, where captive man is, where his people
in bondage are, that he should then deliver them and bring them. into his kingdom to live forevermore. So in the providence of God,
mysteriously, God orders events such that at his birth, Herod
and the Israelites, who should have received him, sought to
destroy him. And he was taken to Egypt, out
of which he would return. Out of bondage, out of captivity,
from Egypt returns the deliverer of his people. When Israel was
a child then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt. Through these events we see how
this world hates Christ. Right from the beginning death
was all around him. Death was all around him. As
he was born, King Herod sought to destroy him. As he ministered the Gospel,
when he was a man in Jerusalem, the chief priests, scribes, Pharisees
sought to stone him. In the end, he was crucified. This world of sin is full of
hatred. This world of sin is full of
death. And when Christ walked upon this
world, the one in whom there is eternal life, death was all
around him. He came to die. Man sought to
slay him. Sin brought about his ultimate
death. But in order to deliver his people
from their sin, in order to deliver his people from death and bring
them unto life, he must come to where they are, in Egypt,
in bondage, in death, and deliver them. Whilst in Egypt, Herod
did all he could to destroy him. He did all he could to destroy
him. He sought where he was. But when
the wise men returned not to him and he realized that he could
not find the exact child, he resorts to a massacre. He slew
all the children in Bethlehem and all the coast thereof from
two years old and under. according to the time which he
had diligently inquired of the wise men. He slew them all. If I can't find the exact one,
he said, I'll just slay all the children and then I'll be rid
of him. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the
prophet, saying, In Ramah was there a voice heard lamentation
and weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children. and would not be comforted because
they are not. He sought to destroy them all.
Such was his opposition. And how we see the opposition
of man to Jesus Christ in this, the hearts of man, the hearts
of you and I by nature. We will not receive Him. We will
not have Him in our midst. We will destroy Him. We will
silence Him. We will shut our ears to Him.
And if it means destroying every child, everyone who could be
Him, everyone who speaks of Him, then that's what we'll do. All
the children at this time were destroyed. A picture of the children
of God, a picture of His followers. Man not only hates Christ, he
hates any who speaks of Him. He hates the children of God.
He hates believers. He'll trample them underfoot.
He'll silence them. He'll put them to death if he
can. Such is the hatred of man. Such is the hatred of Christ's
adversary. There was a voice heard in Ramah
of lamentation, weeping, great mourning, Rachel weeping for
her children. Rachel. Jacob, Israel and Rachel,
his wife. Rachel weeping for her children
how again were taken back to Joseph in Egypt Jacob as he fought and Rachel
thought they had lost Joseph they thought he'd been slain
slain by a wild animal he was dead and then when they're in
a time of famine and they send their other sons down to Egypt
to find food, those sons returned unto their parents, saying that
the man who ruled over Egypt had demanded that they send Joseph's
brother Benjamin down. And unless they came to Egypt
with Benjamin, then they could not receive food. So Jacob was
full of sorrow for not only had he lost his one son, Joseph,
but he was going to lose his other son, Benjamin. And they
were, as it were, full of sorrow for the loss of all their children. And here we see, when Herod destroys
the children in Bethlehem, we see Rachel weeping for her children. She would not be comforted because
they are not. They're gone. Such is the consequence of sin.
Such is the consequence of the hatred of their brethren that
Rachel's children are gone. Both Benjamin and Joseph, her
children, the other brothers, their actions, their deeds, their
jealousy, their hatred have brought about the loss of Rachel's children. She weeps. She weeps. In all of this we see the fall
of man into sin and the consequences of it. For this King Herod that
brought such sorrow, who sought to destroy, and who destroyed
these children, and who brought such sorrow upon Rachel as it
were, this King Herod is like the adversary. He's a picture
of Satan, the serpent at the beginning. He's a picture of
he who subtly opposes God and all His ways. In the garden at
the beginning the devil as the serpent came subtly unto Eve
deceiving her and saying, if thou eat of this tree thou shalt
not surely die. And this one opposed God and
His ways. And He brought through Eve, Adam,
to sin and sin to enter this world and death by sin. He's
an adversary. He hates God. He hates God's
Son. He hates the man, Adam. And He hates the last Adam,
Christ. He hates the first man and the
second man. He hates God's Son. He seeks
to destroy Him. Thou shalt not surely die, he
says unto them, he lies. And yet, when Eve ate, and then
Adam ate, death entered, sin entered, and death by sin, he
was a liar. He promised great things when
really he lied, and he brought in death. He oversaw the fall
of mankind, and the captivity into which man would fall. And
so too did this Herod. He comes unto the wise men and
says unto them, go and search diligently for this young child. And when you have found him,
bring me word again so that I may come and worship him also. He
was a liar. He didn't want to worship Christ. He wanted to destroy him. Just
like the serpent at the beginning. just like the devil, just like
he who possesses him. Herod, as Christ's adversary,
as a Satan unto Christ. Heretia, lies, pretending to
want to worship him. Thou shalt not surely die, he
says. I've come to worship him. And really he came to destroy
him. he's an adversary and not able to destroy the son he destroys
all the other children instead in Bethlehem of that age he brings
about their destruction he brings about their fall and the devil
in the beginning could not bring about the fall of God's son but
he brought about the fall of mankind. He caused mankind to
stumble. He caused mankind to fall. He
deceived and led them astray. And sin entered in death by sin. He'd destroy all those that he
could get his hands upon. He might not be able to get his
hands upon the Son of God, but he'd destroy all others. And
Herod might not have been able to get his hands upon Christ,
But he'd destroy everyone that he could. He did all that he
could to destroy him. But God's hand was on his son. And God would deliver him. And
Satan did all he could to destroy. And he brought about the fall
of man. But he couldn't get his hands
upon Christ, who would ultimately deliver his people from their
sins. Yes, Herod is Christ's adversary.
a picture of Satan. Like the serpent in the garden,
he's a liar. He never wished to worship Christ,
he wished to destroy him. And under his rule, he slew the
children. He slew the children. Now at the beginning, where men
fell, there were two trees. There was a tree of life from
which Adam and Eve didn't eat. And if they had, they'd have
had eternal life. For that tree was a picture of
Christ himself. But there was another tree, the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, from which they did
eat and brought about their destruction. Satan, the serpent, said, if
you eat of this tree, you shall not surely die. And yet when
they ate of it, sin entered and they died. There were two trees. Christ is the tree of life. Joseph, espoused to Mary, Christ's
mother, was a carpenter. He knew what it was to work with
wood. He knew what it was to cut trees
down. And his son who grew up in his
household as a carpenter, Jesus the carpenter, knew what it was
to be cut down as a tree is cut down. Herod sought to cut him
down at the beginning but could not lay his axe against him. But when the time had come, this
carpenter, like a tree, would be cut down by the Jews. And
through the laying down of this tree, he would bring deliverance
under his people, as they were found in the Tree of Life. What a carpenter he was. In Herod's actions, and destroying
these children, we see the substitution of Christ. At his birth, when
God protected him, these children died. As man died in the fall, when
sin entered, and death by sin. But later, when Christ returned
out of Egypt, into Nazareth, and then on to Jerusalem as a
man, when the Jews would take him and he'd be given up into
their hands and crucified. Later he would die, that his
people should live. At this time they died, when
the adversary had his hand upon them. But there would come a
day When the tables would be turned and the Saviour would
die in the place of his people, Satan would finally get, as it
were, his hands upon him and think that he had conquered.
But in slaying this child, the Son of God, a multitude would
be brought to life. What he fought was a victory. What the adversary thought was
a victory brought about the adversary's destruction and the everlasting
salvation of a multitude chosen before the foundation of this
world in Jesus Christ. What they meant for evil, God
meant for good. We read of, in Genesis, regarding
the brethren of Joseph and how they sold him into Egypt, how
they, as it were, slew him, threw him into a pit, cast him off
as dead, and how he then rose to a great height and delivered
his people, delivered his brethren. We read there that what they,
the brethren, meant for evil, God meant for good. And what
Herod meant for evil, in his attempt to destroy Christ and
in his attempt to destroy all the children in Bethlehem under
the age of two. What Herod meant for evil, God
used for good. And what Satan in the beginning
meant for evil, God used for good. And what Satan at the time
of Christ's death meant for evil, God used for good. Satan thought
he would destroy Christ but through Christ's death God brought the
salvation of his people forevermore. What they meant for evil, God
used for good. Christ was taken by his parents
into Egypt and was there until the death of Herod. that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying,
Out of Egypt have I called my son. He was there until Herod
died and then he returned. He returned when his adversary
was no more. He returned as it were in victory. He returned when those who opposed
him had gone. He returned to gather in his
people into his kingdom and bring about their salvation. Christ
entered his kingdom, the land of Israel, when Herod was dead,
when his adversary was no more, when his adversary had been conquered. Throughout all of this we have
seen death and resurrection. At the beginning when Christ
is born, Herod sought to destroy him Christ was taken to Egypt
out of his kingdom into this place of captivity and bondage
whilst there Herod destroys the children then Herod dies and
Christ as it were returns having as it were died through his journey
to Egypt he returns in life There's this journey through this process. A picture of Christ going in
the darkness, into the depths. When Joseph arose, he took the
young child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt. There was this hour of night,
this hour of darkness, when the adversary sought to destroy Christ. And at that hour, his parents
took him took him into Egypt, took him out of sight. He, as
it were, died. He died in the night, in the
darkness. And the adversary had his way. But then, in time, the adversary
was destroyed. Herod died. And Christ was brought
back into his kingdom, into the land of Israel. as it were, rising
again. There's a picture of that resurrection. Here he returns. He returns to
where his people would be. He returns to his kingdom. He
returns as he who was born the king of the Jews. With those
that sought to destroy him out of sight, he returns to bring
salvation. When Herod was dead, behold,
an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. saying arise and take the young
child and his mother and go into the land of Israel for they are
dead which sought the young child's life and he arose and took the
young child and his mother and came into the land of Israel
but when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room
of his father Herod he was afraid to go thither notwithstanding
Being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts
of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city
called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
by the prophets, he shall be called a Nazarene. So lastly, seventhly, he returns
from Egypt to Israel, to Nazareth, to be called a Nazarene. A Nazarene,
a Nazarite like Samson of old, like Samson we're reminded of.
That great deliverer that God sent to his people in the days
of the Philistines. That great strong man who was
consecrated unto God, born and given up for the service of God. He who was sent to deliver his
people and he who ultimately delivered them through the laying
down of his life. For what we read of Samson is
that his greatest victory over the Philistines came when he
was chained to the pillars of that temple and brought it crashing
down upon the Philistines and himself. His greatest victory
came when he laid down his own life. He was a deliverer of his
people, but he would deliver them through death. And here
Christ returns into Israel as a Nazarene. As one who would
come as their saviour. One who would deliver his people
from their sins. But he would have to do it through
laying down his own life. He would have to die that they
might live. Oh what a death he died. Oh what
a death he died. Why should Christ die? Because
his people had sinned. Because the sins of his people
demanded death. and because their death could
never atone for their sins. So God sent his son. He sent
his son into this world. He sent his son to be born according
to the prophets in Bethlehem, in the land of Judah. He sent
his son to come a governor that should rule over his people,
Israel. But the adversary sought to slay
him from the day he was born. the people he was sent unto rejected
him he had to go into Egypt that he might come from that place
of captivity where spiritually his people were found that place
of bondage where spiritually his people were that he might
come with them out of bondage into life out of bondage into
the land of Israel he should be he should come in that way
where he would lead his people forth as Moses had done. But
he must take their sins upon him. He must bear their sins
upon him. He must be made what they are,
be made sin that he should make them to be righteousness. He
should deliver them from their sins and he would do this like
Samson through his own death. through his own death. But what
a death he died. He bore all the sins of all his
people. He suffered the outpouring of
God's wrath against them. He went into the darkness. He went as it were into Egypt
by night. He felt the hatred and enmity
of the adversary. He felt the destructive force
of Herod upon him. preserved in his youth, preserved
as a child from Herod's destruction, but eventually the adversary
of which Herod was but a picture, the adversary. Satan would have
his hour. Satan would come in the darkness
upon Christ and bring all his forces that bear upon him. But
even then he could not touch Him, for Christ laid down His
own life. Though Satan moved in the hearts
of these people, though he moved in Herod's heart, though he moved
in the hearts of the scribes and the Pharisees, though he
moved the Jews, on that day when they cried out, crucify Him,
crucify Him, ultimately it was Christ that laid down His own
life, it came at the appointed hour. And when God said, now
is the day of judgement, now is the appointed hour, then Christ
went to that place. Then the sins were laid upon
him. Then the darkness and the night
came upon him. Then he travailed and then he
led his people through death unto life. Then he led all those
children chosen by God in Christ through death unto life then
he led all the children of Bethlehem all the children of Israel all
the children of God that the adversary sought to slay and
destroy then he led them through death unto life then this Nazarene
led his people through death unto everlasting eternal life,
into his kingdom, never to return. And the other side, in the rivers
of death, as it were like the Egyptians of old who perished
in that Red Sea, the other side, the adversary, Herod, Satan,
all those who hate it, all those who sought to destroy Christ
and his people, perished whilst Christ, the Saviour, whom God
had preserved, led His people forth victoriously. Samson may have died when those
pillars collapsed, but Samson was victorious. Christ may have
died upon the cross, but Christ was victorious. Did He die for
you? Did He die for you? Are you one
of those children chosen of God for whom Christ died? Or is your
heart stirred by the thoughts and the feelings of the adversary
against Christ? Are you filled with indignation? Do you seek to destroy Him? Do
you shut your ears under Him? Do you cast Him out and say away
with Him? Or has God given you the wisdom
of those wise men from the East? Has He given you a star to lead
you unto the Saviour? Has He led you by the Gospel
unto Him, to seek Him and to find Him, and to see where the
Child is, to see where the Saviour is, to see the Saviour crucified
for you? Have you seen the star? Have you with them rejoiced with
exceeding great joy that your Deliverer has come, that he has
wrought a great salvation, and that he has led you with him
into his kingdom forevermore. Out of Egypt have I called my
Son. When Israel was a child, then
I loved him.