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The Symbolic World

371 - The Dark Side of Christmas: The Massacre of the Innocent(s)

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I explore a dark narrative aspect of the Christmas story: the Massacre of the Innocents at the hand of King Herod, connecting it to various Old Testament variations on the pattern: Joseph and the Pharaoh, Jacob and Esau, and David and King Saul. Christ brings all of these stories together in a unique and mind-blowing way, not just in the Gospels, but also in what happens in history afterwards…

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00:00 - Introduction
01:42 - Intro music
02:07 - The text
03:39 - What's going on?
03:59 - Pharaoh kills children in Egypt
05:48 - Joseph son of Israel
07:11 - Jacob and Esau
09:22 - King Saul and David
10:31 - The story of Jesus
12:11 - A prophecy: killed by His brothers
13:43 - The conversion of Rome
14:47 - Going back in time
16:38 - Why is this part of reality?

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Transcript

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One of the strangest elements of the story of Christmas is the massacre of the innocence.

1:05.4

That is, in the story of Christmas, when King Herod finds out that the wise men are coming to worship the new king, he, in order to get rid of this insurgent king, he decides to kill all the

1:14.8

children under two years old in Bethlehem and the region. Of course, it's a very dark aspect

1:22.1

of the story of Christmas, and I understand why it's one word that we don't mention as much when we talk about the story,

1:28.8

but it is a very important part of the story. And it also happens to be a part of the story

1:33.6

where Christ's story manifests a, let's say, a coming together of all these ancient stories

1:44.0

that were there before. I've often said that.

1:47.2

I've often said that Jesus's story is a culmination of all the Old Testament stories,

1:53.6

of all the Old Testament prefigurations. And, you know, it's easy to say that, but it's also a good idea to be able to show it.

2:04.4

And in the case of the story of the massacre of the innocence, we can really see this story.

2:09.5

And so we're going to go through what it is that this story is showing us how it's collapsing all these Old Testament stories together,

2:19.3

but then also we'll look at what the story means or what it is,

2:23.3

you know, why it is an important aspect of the story,

2:26.3

what's it pointing to and what does it reveal

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