Show parents from rage i 1 col 3 it was not just the jews of the homeland who waited hopefully for the messiah promised by the prophet isaiah throughout the lands immediately to the east men frere looking for the advent of a great king who would rise among the jews jew B the count country ry whence came the magi Is a matter of conjecture but their following the tha guidance of a star suggests they came f from rom the region of chaldea where astronomy was highly developed at that tin time ie the people of that region were vere 1 most like the jews in religion 1 of all nations in the world they believed in one god they had no idols they worshipped wor shipped light as the best symbol of god hence their affinity with tho the jews in their expectations regarding the coming of a savior hence the significance they immediately attached attach dd to the appearance of the phenomenal star in coming to seek him the wise men from the east cast expressed a feeling which we know from the roman writers virgil tacitus and Sue tonius also had been as a long time diffused through the west virgil says a child of heaven was looked for who would restore the golden age and take away sin so the hope fermented in the th e minds of all men not just jews alone and they were ready to welcome elcome w jesus as the christ who had come in accordance with their expectations and being warned of god in a dream that they should not return to herod they departed into their own country another way and when they were departed behold the angel of the lord appeared to joseph in a dream saying arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into egypt and be thou there until I 1 bring word for herod will seek the young child to destroy him when he rose lie he took the young child and his mother by night and departed into egypt herod did have all children two years and under in bethlehem slain but within a year he was no longer the tyrant who could order that all nobles who lie he called to him to be executed to insure that his death would be attended by morning he died in jericho in april aged 69 of what is chronicled as a terrible disease and judea and the world had a saviour |