"MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS"
sir,-How did john the Baptist escape "the decree of King Herod who killed all the children under two years old?" asks "Argosy" (Listener, October 24). Answer: By happening to live in one of the few thousand-odd villages of Herod’s domain that was not the single one to which this «security measure applied. "Argosy’s" own massacre of. innocents worries me a good deal more than Herod’s ancient one, however. For, if "the wonderful doings and miracles credited to him are enough to (prove) Elijah certainly never existed" who
among our famous ancestors of more than a few peara ans back is going to be left? I cannot yet see wei interest Romans would have in Christian writers whitewashing the "revolutionary character" of John, a man born outside the Empire well over a century before (B.C. 38), according to "Argosy’s’ chronology. But if, for some private end of his own (for he certainly has no backing from scholars) he wants to abolish John, Elijah, and Jeremiah I am quite willing, provided he leaves us with three men of the same names (or other names) to
produce their writings and- historical effects. For certainly things do not get done in this world without men to do ‘them. And certainly few men have so affected the course and character of world history as the Hebrew prophets now being dramatised in the Men of God series.
ERGO-NAUGHT
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 436, 31 October 1947, Page 5
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