The Chosen People

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?

10. By whom had His Name been previously borne?

11. Who had prophesied of that Name?-Jer. xxiii. 6.

12. How was His presentation in the Temple foretold?-Hag. ii. 7 and 9.

13. How was Simeon's greeting of Him foretold?-Is. xxv. 9.

14. How had He been marked out to the eastern nations as a Star?-Numb. xxiv. 17.

15. What predictions were there of the coming and the gifts of the eastern sages?-Ps. lxxii. 10-15.-Cant. iii. 6.-Is. lx. 3.

16. How had the massacre of the holy Innocents been predicted?-Jer. xxxi. 15, 16, 17.

17. How had the flight and return from Egypt been foreshown?-Hos. xi. 1.

18. What was Herod's last crime?

19. What children did he leave?

20. Who first succeeded him?

21. Why was Archelaus deposed?

22. How was Palestine divided?

23. Who governed Judea?

24. What regulations for the Roman empire were made by Augustus?

25. What languages were everywhere spoken? 26. Who succeeded Augustus, and in what year?

27. What were the predictions of our Lord's childhood?-Is. vii. 15.-liii. 2.

28. How had David declared the wisdom He showed in the Temple?-Ps. cxix. 99, 100.

29. Mention the prophecies of His forerunner?-Is. xl. 3.-Mal. iv. 5, 6.

30. How had baptism with water been already employed?

31. How did our Lord sanctify baptism?

32. What had been the object of the Law which St. John brought to a point?

33. How did He show how the sins of which His disciples were sensible might be removed?

34. Who were the first disciples?

35. Whom did they acknowledge in our Lord?-Deut. xviii. 15.

36. How had the miracles been promised as marks of the Messiah?-Is. xxxii. 3, 4.-xxxv. 5, 6.

37. How had His gentleness been foretold?-Is. xi. 1 2, 3, 4.-xlii. I, 2, 3.-lxi. I, 2, 3.

38. How had the cleansing of the Temple been foretold?-Ps. lxix. 9.-Mal. iii. 1, 2, 3.

39. What was the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist?

40. What was it that prevented the Jews from recognizing the Messiah?

41. How had their rejection of Him been foretold?-Ps. lxix, 7, 8.-Is. liii. I, 2.

42. How had the triumphal entry into Jerusalem been predicted?-Ps. viii. 2.-cxviii. 26.-Jer. xvii 25.-Zech. ix. 9.

43. How had the plots of the Pharisees been foretold?-Ps. x. 10, 11.-xxxv.-vii.-lvi. 5, 6.

44. Mention the prophecies of the treachery of Judas.-Ps. xli. 9.-lv. 12, 13, 14, 15.

45. How had the price been already made known, and likewise what became of it?-Zech. xi. 12, 13.

46. What was to be the end of the traitor?-Ps. cix. 7, 8, 9.

47. What blessed mystery was instituted on the night before the Passion? 48. How had the joining of different authorities been foreshown?-Ps. ii. 2.

49. How the testimony against Him?-Ps. xxxv. 11.

50. How the judgment?-Is. liii. 8.

51. How His silence before Pilate?-Is. liii. 7.

52. How the insults of the soldiery?-Is. 1. 6.

53. How the scourging?--Ps. cxxix, 3.-Is. liii. 5.

54. How the disfigurement?-Is. lii. 14.

55. What was the accusation on which the Jews condemned Him?

56. What that on which Pilate condemned Him?

57. Why was crucifixion the manner of His death?

58. How had it been predicted?-Ps. xxii. 17.-Is. xxv. 11.-Zech. xii. 10.-xiii. 6.

59. How had the desertion of the disciples been foretold?-Ps. lxxxviii. IS.-Zech. xiii. 7.

60. How the derision of the Jews?-Ps. xxii. 7, 8.

61. How the parting of the garments?-Ps. xxii. 18.

62. How the sponge of vinegar?-Ps. lxix. 22.

63. What had been the prediction of-the sense of desertion by God?-Ps. xxii. 1.

64. What of the dying among the wicked and the burial?-Ps. lxxxviii. 3, 4.-Is. liii. 9.

65. What of the Resurrection?-Ps. xvi. 11.-Is. xxv. 8.

66. What of the effect on us?-Is. xxvi. 19.-Hos. xiii, 14.

67. What of the Ascension?-Ps. lxviii. 18.