Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

And he answering said to them, 'Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them,

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

as it hath been written in the Law of the Lord, -- 'Every male opening a womb shall be called holy to the Lord,'

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,

And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male,