these two classes St. Matthew would have us think the pilgrims to Jerusalem belonged? Such unhonored Magi as Philo describes Would no where have received the honors these pilgrims received in Jerusalem. Such wandering Magi, telling the tale they told in Jerusalem, would have been strangled by order of Herod, without formality or delay. St. Matthew, then, must have used the title in an honorable sense; and, if so, then in its national sense; for it is not possible to separate the two. That St. Matthew