²⁰起来 ！带着 小孩子 和 他 母亲 往 以色列 地 去，因为 要害 小孩子 性命 的人已经死了 。

²⁰Saying, 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.

²⁰ Verse 20. They are dead] Both Herod and Antipater his son;

though some think the plural is here used for the singular, and

that the death of Herod alone is here intended. But as Herod's

son Antipater was at this time heir apparent to the throne, and he

had cleared his way to it by procuring the death of both his elder

brothers, he is probably alluded to here, as doubtless he entered

into his father's designs. THEY are dead-Antipater was put to

death by his father's command, five days before this execrable

tyrant went to his own place. See Josephus, Antiq. xvi. 11; xvii.

9.