ose, he took the young child and His mother by
night, and departed into Egypt; 15. And was there until the death
of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord
by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called My son. 16. Then
Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was
exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that
were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years
old and under, according to the time which he had diligently
enquired of the wise men. 17. Then was fulfilled that which was
spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, 18. In Rama was there a voice
heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping
for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
19. But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth
to a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20. Saying, Arise, and take the
young child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for
they are dead which sought the young child's life. 21. And he
arose, and took the young child and His mother, and came into the
land of Israel. 22. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in
Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither;
notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside
into the parts of Galilee: 23. And he came and dwelt in a city
called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.'--MATT. ii. 13-23.

Delitzsch, in his _New Investigations into the Origin and Plan of the
Canonical Gospels_, tries to show that Matthew is constructed on the
plan of the Pentateuch. The analogy is somewhat strained, but there are
some striking points of correspondence. He regards Matthew i. to ii. 15
as answering to Genesis. It begins with the 'genesis of Jesus,' and, as
the Old Testament book ends with the migration of Israel to Egypt, so
this section of the Gospel ends with the flight of the Holy Family to
the same land. The section from ii. 15 to the end of the Sermon on the
Mount answers to Exodus, and here the parallels are striking. The murder
of the innocents at Bethlehem by Herod answers to Pharaoh's slaughter of
Hebrew children; the Exodus, to the return to Nazareth; the call of
Moses at the bush, to the baptism of Jesus; the forty years in the
wilderness, to the forty day