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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 49, 4 April 1874, Page 13

(T)Matth., ii, 16-18. (2) Jei^OT., J :xi, 15. (3) M<ic\ob., Satu'Dal., lib. ii, cap ir. (4)Euseb., Hist e001e3., lib. vi, cap xli. (5) Vie de J6tus, pag. 208. (6) " The number of the children massacred at Bethlehem, in this circumstan has not been absolutely fixed. Dr Sepp esti-uates it as follows : Bothlehen ', as we know, was the smallest town of Juda ; its population amounted probably to two or thiee thousaud ; for even to-day, when it is pietty considerable, it scavce numbers two thousand. Now, out of one thousand inhabitants, we cannot suppoee more than 15 to 20 male births in the yea; . The victims lnacsacred by Herod, not counting the fathers and mother-", can hsrdly have amounted to more tkan from sixty to seventy." (Sep}., Life of our Loi'd Jesus Christ )