Story of the birth of Christ

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1. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero · Otto Rank

   And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things which they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.” We now …

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2. Religious art in France, 13 century · Emile Mâle

   Another and a very ingenuous legend relating to the birth of Christ is also seen at times in the cathedrals. Near to the Virgin who is lying on her bed two women, one of them sometimes with her arm in a sling,1 are assiduously caring for the Child, perhaps washing Him in a basin.5 They are the mid- wives spoken of in the " Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew," where it is related that Joseph had gone to seek a midwife and when he returned to the cave the Virgin was already …

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3. The Works of Aurelius Augustine, a New Translation, Vol. IX- On Christian Doctrine, the Enchiridon · Aurelius Augustine

   Cuar. xu.— Christ's birth through the Holy Spirit manifests to us the ' grace of God. And, therefore, as one thing may be born of another, and yet not in such a way as to be its son, and as not every one who is called a son was born of him whose son he is called, it is clear that this arrangement by which Christ was born of the Holy Spirit, but not as His son, and of the Virgin Mary as her son, is intended as a manifestation …

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4. The Myth of the Birth of the Hero · Otto Rank

   Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, 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 enquired of the wise men. 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 …

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5. The Works of Aurelius Augustine, a New Translation, Vol. IX- On Christian Doctrine, the Enchiridon · Aurelius Augustine

   ’ Cuap. xx11.—Of the six ages of the world. 39. “ Five ages of the world, accordingly, having been now completed (there has entered the sixth). Of these ages the first is from the beginning of the human race, that is, from Adam, who was the first man that was made, down to Noah, who constructed the ark at the time of the flood? Then the second extends from that period on to Abraham, who was called? the father indeed of all nations? which should follow the example of his …

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6. The Golden Bough · James George Frazer

   In this he may have been mistaken. If Adonis was indeed, as I have argued, the spirit of the corn, a more suitable name for his dwelling-place could hardly be found than Bethlehem, "the House of Bread," and he may well have been worshipped there at his House of Bread long ages before the birth of Him who said, "I am the bread of life." Even on the hypothesis that Adonis followed rather than preceded Christ at Bethlehem, the choice of his sad figure to divert the allegiance of Christians …

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