Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. He Opens their story with a brief introduction, where one great fact - even the birth of Jesus - is stated in fewest words, where some historical and geographi cal knowledge is taken for granted; and it is in keep ing that in this, his description of the strangers is by their title, only. This, too, is brief; but portraiture in the flowing style of romance, or with the minuteness of a child's history book, would be out of place in a gos pel. A title is, more or less, a description. To call men Mandarins, is to describe them and thus the title Magi here stands for pages, in more diffuse and less suggestive writers; for when St. Matthew calls these foreigners Magi, he tells their nation, and their character. Their title introduces them as Persians of the sacred or priestly order of Persia.

He Opens their story with a brief introduction, where one great fact — even the birth of Jesus — is stated in fewest words, where some historical and geographi cal knowledge is taken for granted; and it is in keep ing that in this, his description of the strangers is by their title, only. This, too, is brief; but portraiture in the flowing style of romance, or with the minuteness of a child's history book, would be out of place in a gos pel. A title is, more or less, a description. To call men Mandarins, is to describe them and thus the title Magi here stands for pages, in more diffuse and less suggestive writers; for when St. Matthew calls these foreigners Magi, he tells their nation, and their character. Their title introduces them as Persians of the sacred or priestly order of Persia.