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122:5.1 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] was a mild-mannered man, extremely conscientious, and in every way [[faithful]] to the religious [[conventions]] and [[practices]] of his people. He talked little but [[thought]] much. The sorry plight of the [[Jewish]] people caused Joseph much sadness. As a [[youth]], among his eight brothers and sisters, he had been more cheerful, but in the earlier years of married life (during [[Jesus]]' childhood) he was subject to periods of mild [[spiritual]] discouragement. These [[temperament]]al [[manifestations]] were greatly improved just before his untimely [[death]] and after the [[economic]] condition of his [[family]] had been enhanced by his advancement from the rank of carpenter to the role of a [[Wealthy|prosperous]] contractor.

122:5.1 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] was a mild-mannered man, extremely conscientious, and in every way [[faithful]] to the religious [[conventions]] and [[practices]] of his people. He talked little but [[thought]] much. The sorry plight of the [[Jewish]] people caused Joseph much sadness. As a [[youth]], among his eight brothers and sisters, he had been more cheerful, but in the earlier years of married life (during [[Jesus]]' childhood) he was subject to periods of mild [[spiritual]] discouragement. These [[temperament]]al [[manifestations]] were greatly improved just before his untimely [[death]] and after the [[economic]] condition of his [[family]] had been enhanced by his advancement from the rank of carpenter to the role of a [[Wealthy|prosperous]] contractor.

122:5.2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary]'s [[temperament]] was quite [[opposite]] to that of her [[husband]]. She was usually cheerful, was very rarely downcast, and possessed an ever-sunny disposition. Mary indulged in [[free]] and frequent [[expression]] of her [[emotion]]al feelings and was never [[observed]] to be sorrowful until after the sudden [[death]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph]. And she had hardly recovered from this shock when she had thrust upon her the [[anxieties]] and questionings aroused by the extraordinary [[career]] of her eldest son, which was so rapidly unfolding before her astonished gaze. But throughout all this unusual [[experience]] Mary was [[composed]], [[courageous]], and fairly [[wise]] in her [[relationship]] with her strange and little-understood first-born son and his surviving brothers and sisters.

122:5.2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary]'s [[temperament]] was quite [[opposite]] to that of her [[husband]]. She was usually cheerful, was very rarely downcast, and possessed an ever-sunny disposition. Mary indulged in [[free]] and frequent [[expression]] of her [[emotion]]al feelings and was never [[observed]] to be sorrowful until after the sudden [[death]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph]. And she had hardly recovered from this shock when she had thrust upon her the [[anxieties]] and questionings aroused by the extraordinary [[career]] of her eldest son, which was so rapidly unfolding before her astonished gaze. But throughout all this unusual [[experience]] Mary was [[composed]], [[courageous]], and fairly [[wise]] in her [[relationship]] with her strange and little-understood first-born son and his surviving brothers and sisters.

122:5.3 [[Jesus]] derived much of his unusual [[gentleness]] and marvelous [[sympathetic]] [[understanding]] of [[human]] [[nature]] from his [[father]]; he inherited his gift as a great [[teacher]] and his tremendous capacity for [[righteous]] indignation from his [[mother]]. In [[emotional]] [[reactions]] to his adult-life [[environment]], Jesus was at one time like his father, [[meditative]] and [[worship]]ful, sometimes characterized by apparent sadness; but more often he drove forward in the [[manner]] of his mother's optimistic and [[determined]] disposition. All in all, Mary's [[temperament]] tended to [[dominate]] the [[career]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD divine Son] as he grew up and swung into the momentous strides of his adult life. In some particulars [[Jesus]] was a blending of his [[parents]]' [[traits]]; in other respects he exhibited the traits of one in [[contrast]] with those of the other.

122:5.3 [[Jesus]] derived much of his unusual [[gentleness]] and marvelous [[sympathetic]] [[understanding]] of [[human]] [[nature]] from his [[father]]; he inherited his gift as a great [[teacher]] and his tremendous capacity for [[righteous]] indignation from his [[mother]]. In [[emotional]] [[reactions]] to his adult-life [[environment]], Jesus was at one time like his father, [[meditative]] and [[worship]]ful, sometimes characterized by apparent sadness; but more often he drove forward in the [[manner]] of his mother's optimistic and [[determined]] disposition. All in all, Mary's [[temperament]] tended to [[dominate]] the [[career]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD divine Son] as he grew up and swung into the momentous strides of his adult life. In some particulars [[Jesus]] was a blending of his [[parents]]' [[traits]]; in other respects he exhibited the traits of one in [[contrast]] with those of the other.

122:5.4 From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] Jesus secured his strict [[training]] in the usages of the [[Jewish]] [[ceremonials]] and his unusual acquaintance with the [[Hebrew scriptures]]; from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary] he derived a broader [[viewpoint]] of religious life and a more [[liberal]] [[concept]] of [[personal]] [[spiritual]] [[freedom]].

122:5.4 From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] Jesus secured his strict [[training]] in the usages of the [[Jewish]] [[ceremonials]] and his unusual acquaintance with the [[Hebrew scriptures]]; from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary] he derived a broader [[viewpoint]] of religious life and a more [[liberal]] [[concept]] of [[personal]] [[spiritual]] [[freedom]].

122:5.5 The [[families]] of both Joseph and Mary were well [[educated]] for their time. Joseph and Mary were educated far above the [[average]] for their day and station in life. He was a [[thinker]]; she was a [[planner]], expert in [[adaptation]] and [[practical]] in immediate [[execution]]. Joseph was a black-eyed brunet; Mary, a brown-eyed well-nigh blond type.

122:5.5 The [[families]] of both Joseph and Mary were well [[educated]] for their time. Joseph and Mary were educated far above the [[average]] for their day and station in life. He was a [[thinker]]; she was a [[planner]], expert in [[adaptation]] and [[practical]] in immediate [[execution]]. Joseph was a black-eyed brunet; Mary, a brown-eyed well-nigh blond type.

122:5.6 Had [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] lived, he undoubtedly would have become a firm believer in the [[divine]] mission of his eldest son. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary] alternated between believing and [[doubt]]ing, being greatly [[influenced]] by the position taken by her other children and by her [[friends]] and relatives, but always was she steadied in her final [[attitude]] by the [[memory]] of [[Gabriel]]' s [[appearance]] to her immediately after the child was [[conceived]].

122:5.6 Had [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] lived, he undoubtedly would have become a firm believer in the [[divine]] mission of his eldest son. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary] alternated between believing and [[doubt]]ing, being greatly [[influenced]] by the position taken by her other children and by her [[friends]] and relatives, but always was she steadied in her final [[attitude]] by the [[memory]] of [[Gabriel]]' s [[appearance]] to her immediately after the child was [[conceived]].

122:5.7 Mary was an expert [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving weaver] and more than averagely [[skilled]] in most of the household arts of that day; she was a good housekeeper and a superior homemaker. Both Joseph and Mary were good [[teachers]], and they saw to it that their [[children]] were well versed in the learning of that day.

122:5.7 Mary was an expert [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving weaver] and more than averagely [[skilled]] in most of the household arts of that day; she was a good housekeeper and a superior homemaker. Both Joseph and Mary were good [[teachers]], and they saw to it that their [[children]] were well versed in the learning of that day.

122:5.8 When [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] was a young man, he was employed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary]'s [[father]] in the work of building an addition to his house, and it was when Mary brought Joseph a cup of [[water]], during a noontime meal, that the [[courtship]] of the pair who were destined to become the [[parents]] of [[Jesus]] really began.

122:5.8 When [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] was a young man, he was employed by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary]'s [[father]] in the work of building an addition to his house, and it was when Mary brought Joseph a cup of [[water]], during a noontime meal, that the [[courtship]] of the pair who were destined to become the [[parents]] of [[Jesus]] really began.

122:5.9 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122_-_Birth_and_Infancy_of_Jesus#122:1._JOSEPH_AND_MARY Joseph and Mary] were married, in accordance with [Jewish wedding Jewish custom], at Mary's [[home]] in the environs of [[Nazareth]] when Joseph was twenty-one years old. This [[marriage]] concluded a [[normal]] [[courtship]] of almost two years' duration. Shortly thereafter they moved into their new [[home]] in [[Nazareth]], which had been built by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] with the assistance of two of his [[brothers]]. The house was located near the foot of the near-by elevated [[land]] which so [[charm]]ingly overlooked the surrounding countryside. In this [[home]], especially prepared, these young and expectant [[parents]] had thought to [[welcome]] the child of promise, little realizing that this momentous [[event]] of a [[universe]] was to transpire while they would be absent from home in [[Bethlehem]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea Judea].

122:5.9 [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_122_-_Birth_and_Infancy_of_Jesus#122:1._JOSEPH_AND_MARY Joseph and Mary] were married, in accordance with [Jewish wedding Jewish custom], at Mary's [[home]] in the environs of [[Nazareth]] when Joseph was twenty-one years old. This [[marriage]] concluded a [[normal]] [[courtship]] of almost two years' duration. Shortly thereafter they moved into their new [[home]] in [[Nazareth]], which had been built by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph] with the assistance of two of his [[brothers]]. The house was located near the foot of the near-by elevated [[land]] which so [[charm]]ingly overlooked the surrounding countryside. In this [[home]], especially prepared, these young and expectant [[parents]] had thought to [[welcome]] the child of promise, little realizing that this momentous [[event]] of a [[universe]] was to transpire while they would be absent from home in [[Bethlehem]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea Judea].

122:5.10 The larger part of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph]'s [[family]] became believers in the teachings of [[Jesus]], but very few of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary]'s people ever believed in him until after he departed from this world. Joseph leaned more toward the [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of the expected [[Messiah]], but Mary and her [[family]], especially her [[father]], held to the [[idea]] of the Messiah as a temporal deliverer and [[political]] ruler. Mary's [[ancestors]] had been prominently identified with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabees Maccabean] activities of the then but recent times.

122:5.10 The larger part of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph]'s [[family]] became believers in the teachings of [[Jesus]], but very few of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus) Mary]'s people ever believed in him until after he departed from this world. Joseph leaned more toward the [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of the expected [[Messiah]], but Mary and her [[family]], especially her [[father]], held to the [[idea]] of the Messiah as a temporal deliverer and [[political]] ruler. Mary's [[ancestors]] had been prominently identified with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabees Maccabean] activities of the then but recent times.

122:5.11 Joseph held vigorously to the Eastern, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iraq Babylonian], views of the Jewish religion; Mary leaned strongly toward the more liberal and broader Western, or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_Judaism Hellenistic], [[interpretation]] of the [[law]] and the [[prophets]].

122:5.11 Joseph held vigorously to the Eastern, or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Iraq Babylonian], views of the Jewish religion; Mary leaned strongly toward the more liberal and broader Western, or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_Judaism Hellenistic], [[interpretation]] of the [[law]] and the [[prophets]].

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