When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack ??35 to bring out the secret aims of many a heart. And your own soul will be pierced by a spear."

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron flail; her child was caught up to God and to his throne,

They laughed at him. However, he put them all outside and taking the father and mother of the child as well as his companions he went in to where the child was lying;

After they had gone, there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt; stay there till I tell you. For Herod is going to search for the child and destroy him."

saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and kill them,

Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death,