Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
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Jerome
AD 420
the diviners and the wise men, and the magicians, and the Chaldeans: Well then, it seems to me that diviners are people who perform a thing by means of words; wise men are those who pursue individual lines of philosophic enquiry; magicians are those who employ blood and animal sacrifices and often have contact with corpses. Furthermore the term "astrologers" or nativity-casters, among the Chaldeans signifies, I believe, what the common people call mathematicians.
