Revelation 12 presents Christmas from a cosmic perspective, adding a new set of images to the familiar scenes of manger and shepherds and the slaughter of the innocents.
- Philip Yancey
Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.
- Philip Appleman
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.