RE: Massacre of the Innocents
July 23, 2018 at 11:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2018 at 11:17 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(July 23, 2018 at 5:14 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(July 23, 2018 at 4:48 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Here you go.
Clearly Herod didn't just randomly pick two years old, he determined the age from the Magi's own testimony.
Furthermore do you think the Magi immediately hopped on a camel and trekked off through the desert once they saw the star without provisioning for the journey?
It is implied through simple reading comprehension and critical thinking.
What you are engaged in is called 'speculation' and can readily be dismissed as such. Perhaps Herod simply wanted a fudge factor. As it turns out, the magi weren't playing straight with Herod, so perhaps a bit of caution was warranted. Regardless, what the magi actually told him and why he felt it was necessary to give the order he did is simply unrecorded. Your speculation in the matter is worth dick.
Wow, 2 years is really farfetched...
Let see the journey from Egypt took Moses 40 years to go something like 250 miles.
Homer wrote that it took Ulysses 10 years to travel essentially 600 miles (by boat I may add).
But two years to travel from Iraq/Iran to Jerusalem is a somehow a bridge too far.
