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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
10 Warriors were made of the nobles, the women were torn from their husbands; the lower class of the people, reduced to slavery, were sent by thousands across the sea.
As to the children they were killed by the sword, and throughout the whole country of Israel nothing but weeping and groaning was heard.
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In their sore distress the people remembered again their great God; they implored His mercy and prayed Him to forgive them. Our Father in His inexhaustible kindness listened to their appeal.
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The time had now come when the merciful Judge had chosen to incarnate Himself in a human being.
And the Eternal Spirit who remained in a condition of complete inaction and of supreme beatitude, aroused and detached Himself for an indefinite time from the Eternal Being,
In order to show, by assuming the human form, the means of identifying one's self with divinity and attaining eternal felicity;
And to show by His example how we may attain moral purity and separate the soul from its material envelope so that it may reach the perfection necessary to pass into the Kingdom of Heaven, which is unchangeable and where eternal happiness reigns.
