KJV
12And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
The wise men wisely vanish, never to be heard from again. What is this connection between Jesus and the East? There are legends about Jesus going to India, but I think the actual traveling here was not done by Jesus or by the wise men. This is about the travel of ideas. Christianity is an interesting merger of Levantine religion with Greek philosophy. Interesting that the idea of an eternal soul came from the Greeks, not the Jews.
But the East? How do those ideas come into play? I don't know.
I'm also curious what the "East" signifies to Matthew.
This is going to get more fun when we move on to other gospels and I start comparing and contrasting. :) I've forced myself into the constraint of the canonical order, and I will obey it.
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