The Later Childhood of Jesus

124:0.1Al­though Je­sus might have en­joyed a bet­ter op­por­tu­nity for school­ing at Alexan­dria than in Gal­i­lee, he could not have had such a splen­did en­vi­ron­ment for work­ing out his own life prob­lems with a min­i­mum of ed­u­ca­tional guid­ance, at the same time en­joy­ing the great ad­van­tage of con­stantly con­tact­ing with such a large num­ber of all classes of men and women hail­ing from ev­ery part of the civ­i­lized world. Had he re­mained at Alexan­dria, his ed­u­ca­tion would have been di­rected by Jews and along ex­clu­sively Jew­ish lines. At Naz­a­reth he se­cured an ed­u­ca­tion and re­ceived a train­ing which more ac­cept­ably pre­pared him to un­der­stand the gen­tiles, and which gave him a bet­ter and more bal­anced idea of the rel­a­tive mer­its of the East­ern, or Baby­lo­nian, and the West­ern, or Hel­lenic, views of He­brew the­ol­ogy.