Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child's life.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
But if they were many who sought his destruction, how came they all to have died in so short a time? As we have related above, all the great men among the Jews were slain at Herod’s death.
Or the Evangelist uses a figure of speech, by which the plural is used for the singular. These words, “the Child’s life,” overthrow those heretics
