LESSON XX.
1. In what year of the world did Augustus number his people?
2. What was the object of Augustus?
3. What was the real cause of this taxation?
4. What prophecies had foretold that the Messiah should be born of a woman?—Gen. in. 15.—Is. vii. 14.—Jer. xxxi. 22.—Micah, v. 3.
5. How was Bethlehem fixed for His birth-place?—Micah, v. 2.
6. How was His birth foretold?—Is. ix. 6.
7. What allusion was there to His being received into a stable and rejected by His townsmen?—Is. i. 3.
8. What were the rejoicings?
9. By what rite was He made obedient to the Law?