And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
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Jerome
AD 420
They had offered gifts to the Lord, and receive a warning corresponding to it.This warning (in the Greek ‘having received a response’) is given not by an Angel, but by the Lord Himself, to show the high privilege granted to the merit of Joseph.