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He no longer says “flee,” (Matthew 2:20) but “go,” hinting at relief after the trial.By speaking of the child’s soul he overturns Apollinaris’s claim that the Lord took flesh without mind and without soul.
In Christ’s economic descent into Egypt and his return from there into Judea, God recapitulates the people’s captivity and redeems them from the plot, leading them home again.