When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man I put away childish things.

And behold, a man from the multitude cried, saying, Teacher, I desire you to look upon my son, for he is my only child;

For when a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come; but when she has borne the child she no longer remembers the distress, because of joy that a man is born into the world.

And they derided him. And putting them all out, he took the father and mother of the little child, and those with him, and went in where the little child was;

And she bore a male child, who is about to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

And when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod will seek the young child to destroy it.

Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they are dead that sought the young child's life.

Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if one's brother dies and leaves a wife, and leaves no child, his brother shall take his wife and raise up children for his brother.

But woe to those with child, and having children at the breast in those days; for there shall be great distress on the earth, and wrath against this people.

And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac??11 for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,??12 it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger;