"Twenty children killed." It is a similar refrain to the early life of Jesus. King Herod ordered children under two killed in the Judean village of Bethlehem when he heard from the Persian travelers that a "king of the Jews" was to be born. Historians estimate that in this tiny village some twenty were hacked to death by the mad man, subservient to Rome and insecure in his kingship.
The death of children, innocent and vulnerable, is cast in the very beginnings of the Gospel and Christmas story.
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