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Excerpt from The Flower of the Field F the two pictures that are known to every Christian child, that of the little house of Nazareth is the most familiar. Its counter-part, the house of Joachim, Anne, and the little Mary invites further study. Both offer ample scope for imagination, and both require to be studied by the light of tradition and fancy, for the Gospel offers no details of either. Joachim's family came from Nazareth and that of Anne from Bethlehem. Their lives were guileless before God and man. Joachim kept large flocks Of sheep and was his own shepherd. Of their produce he relieved the poor neighbours. They were advanced in years and to their grief had no children, -which excluded them from any hope that the promised Messiah would be born of their family. They were descended from the royal stock of David and God had sworn to David with an oath, that the fruit of his loins should Sit upon his throne. (acts ii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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