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Ambrose: The star is the way, and the way is Christ; and according to the mystery of the incarnation, Christ is a star. He is a blazing and a morning-star. Thus where Herod is, the star is not seen; where Christ is, there it is again seen, and points out the way. [4] Saint Remigius: Or, the star figures the grace of God, and Herod the Devil. He ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. The Novum Testamentum Graece ...
The King James Version translates "magi" as wise men; the same translation is applied to the wise men led by Daniel of earlier Hebrew Scriptures (Daniel 2:48). The same word is given as sorcerer and sorcery when describing "Elymas the sorcerer" in Acts 13:6–11, and Simon Magus, considered a heretic by the early Church, in Acts 8:9–13.
Gerard David, Adoration of the Kings, National Gallery, London, circa 1515 Adoration of the Magi, Gentile da Fabriano, 1423. The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings or Visitation of the Wise Men is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star ...
The Magi—the wise men from the east, the “three kings” in the popular tradition—aren’t there at the manger in Bethlehem. ... They follow the star and arrive sometimes “after Jesus was ...
Who the magi were is not specified in the Bible; there are only traditions. Since English translations of the Bible refer to them as "men who studied the stars", they are believed to have been astrologers, who could foresee the birth of a "Messiah" from their study of the stars. [14] Caspar is often considered to be an Indian scholar.
Matthew 2:11 is the eleventh verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.The magi, dispatched by King Herod, have found the small child (not infant) Jesus and in this verse present him with gifts in an event known as the Visit of the Wise Men.
inquired of the wise men. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had