a f l in p f t i s a i� op admit the of one or other of the g charges the ic � � it hu he to ih il the would be into the f i iv � h ill ix c a i c the ot a city wc t of the of or if lie he supposed to give a of t t x him with meet of word the est of its or even if to the ct n ap to the � in the old testament it could only that lie would i c a t which j was or that he would ik crowned ns joseph gen in no case that bo would be up in the petty town of the probable of this passage and that which the sanction of the christians questioned on the subject by li he here to si mc i called � as s in every case is violence done to the word by to a mere of on entirely relation to tlie name of the city of s at a of op thk � transition to the tl to avoid the many difficulties which beset ua at o cry step in this chapter after manner of the it is quite worth our while to seek for another which may suffice to explain the according lo physical and without any of such an has been the most attempted by how could heathen in a remote country of the t know any thing of a king about to be bom this is the first difficulty and it ia removed on the above system of interpretation by that the i were jews this apparently is not the idea oi for the which he into the mouth of the w an thai is born king of them from that people and t regards the of the entire narrative tire h o have apprehended it more than thinks in the visit of the ma as the of christ to as we have above remarked this difficulty may bo away without having recourse to he w� of i farther to tlie al the real object of the journey of men not lo see the new king nor n ns its cause the t ax which they observed in the cost tliey ad p f t in m t in ow k t s t t � d s s ad xl the ji happened to bo travelling to with views and far and wide in land of a new a celestial they had observed o and they desired to see the a ity it is true the the g von to by usual conception of ihe story ia but only at the expense of l or even if it were to into their purpose in this journey cannot hav boon a commercial one for their inquiry on arriving at je ia after the new bom king and mention a seen by them in the east aa the cause not only of their question but of their present journey the object of which to bo tho of their homage to the new bom child v the star becomes on this method of interpretation a natural or a or a that ia a of f last idea was ut forth by and has been approved by several and is it more on any one of these to conceive that the star could the on way and remain stationary over a particular according to the of the tc � t wo have already examined the two if we adopt tho third we either the v u to signify tho of the ts in union t the text nut imply a but a movement of the i entire phenomenon or we s to our aid and imagine that the which could no longer in tiie valley m and again on view over the where s l or the sion ov r v y merely the abode not the of child and hi t this we grant but when list pi thus t i v he gi more general ihe precise meaning of e so that this explanation is a vain effort to the of tho the most remarkable supposition l by those who p aa a of is that tliey had obtain bi fixed point in to of may be attached according to s calculation corrected by there before the of in the year of a of and in t io the of these is repented in the above sign to which attribute a special relation to i about every years and according to the of tlie jew it took place years before the of for both ii mm in f in der r in im s w it t l� � li s el s s ufe it � probable enough that hope of great of nation would be n the of this in the time of and thai the n as cr d it would on the part of tar d by was li o n our aft to the year of christ and as to the of � an extremely and as there certain in tlie ex text for instance the word v and t mi do not accord with an explanation � so soon as r with s narrative presents itself wc are m giving it the the connected with the of from the id testament are from the point of by denying that tlie writers of the testament arc for the of these it is that the prophecy of is applied to the and his birth in by the and that has not committed hun df to their by one word of a but when the proceeds to how the i the interpretation he it by sea of fact in relation to the from and in to a singular expedient say lo guard against the offence wliich it might possibly ve 