Francis Patrick Kenrick

Jer. xxxi. 15. The prophet spoke of the captivity of the Israelites. Rachel, grandmother of Ephraim, is represeoted as mourning over her children, as they passed by her tomb into captivity. They exist no longer for her, because they are far away from the land of their fathers. The words are applied by the evangelist, under divine illustration, to the slaughtered innocents, over whom Rachel, whose tomb was in Bethle- hem, seemed to mourn.