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'Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. ' And he said unto them, 'How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my father's business? ' And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. -- _Luke_ ii. 48-50.
Was that his saying? Why did they not understand it? Do we understand it? What did his saying mean? The Greek is not absolutely clear. Whether the Syriac words he used were more precise, who in this world can tell? But had we heard his very words, we too, with his father and mother, would have failed to understand them. Must we fail still?