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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Interpretation
What joy these wise men felt upon this sight of the star, none know so well as those who, after a long and melancholy night of temptation and desertion, under the power of a spirit of bondage, at length receive the Spirit of adoption, witnessing with their spirits that they are the children of God.
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This thought runs through Matthew 2:11-15.