“And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.”
“It is said that even the cave, where Mary was, was filled with supernal light,” remarked Miriamne digressingly.
“I believe it on my word. If angels ever come to earth, it must be surely to hold glad torches about the couches where beings, to be at last perchance like themselves, are coming forth to life,” said Rizpah.
“It is thus reported,” continued Miriamne:
“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
“Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.”
Miriamne substituted Joshua for Jesus in the reading.
“Joshua, ‘Joshua,’ what ‘Joshua’ is that?”
“Joshua means “deliverer;” this one was to be such; for the rest, I’ve not before read it, mother.”
“Read on, again,” tritely, Rizpah spoke.