If the Magi had come in search of an earthly King, they would have been disconcerted at finding that they had taken the trouble to come such a long way for nothing.
Consequently they would have neither adored nor offered gifts.
But since they sought a heavenly King, though they found in Him no signs of royal pre-eminence, yet, content with the testimony of the star alone, they adored:
for they saw a man, and they acknowledged a God."
~St. John Chrysostom
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