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In the massacre of the innocents what prophecy was fulfilled?
Matthew: “Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not” ([ii, 17, 18]).
This so-called prophecy is in [Jeremiah xxxi, 15]. It was written at the time of the Babylonian captivity and refers to the captive Jews. In the next verse Jeremiah says: “They shall come again from the land of the enemy.”