Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
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Jerome
AD 420
We think the Evangelist first wrote, as we read in the Hebrew, ‘Judah,’ not 'Judaea.’ For in what other country is there a Bethlehem, that this needs to be distinguished as in ‘Judaea?’ But ‘Judah’ is written, because there is another Bethlehem in Galilee.
They knew that such a star would rise by the prophecy of Balaam, whose successors they were. But whether they were Chaldaeans, or Persians, or came from the utmost ends of the earth, how in so short a space of time could they arrive at Jerusalem?
