be added the celebration of the passover, which he goes on to mention here specifically.
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4. From this fact we can reasonably infer that the feast of the Epiphany was introduced into Africa after the Donatist schism had begun; most probably, in fact, some time after the conversion of Constantine, when pilgrimages from the Latin West to Jerusalem and the holy places became very frequent, and the liturgical influence of the Church of Jerusalem on the Churches of the West correspondingly increased. But to all that the Donatists, with their rigorist conservatism, would have been quite impervious.
5. See Is 8:4. Here the child is not called Emmanuel, the name taken up in Matthew's infancy narrative, 1:23, from Is 7:14, but Maher-shalal-hash-baz—which Matthew, wisely no doubt, re¬ frained from transposing into the New Testament key.
6. See the two books of Kings, passim; more particularly 1 Kgs 12:26-33; 16:23—18:46; 2 Kgs 17:7-41. 7. Star worship, together with astrology.
8. The star, as a heavenly phenomenon, represented the Word rather than the man Christ Jesus. He goes on, to some extent, to explain.
9. See Jn 1:1.14.
10. He showed it to the Magi in the first place. 11. See Mt 22:37-40. 12. See Mt 2:16.
13. See Sermon 201, note 8. To the sacraments of the old law mentioned there, must of course be added the celebration of the passover, which he goes on to mention here specifically.
14. See Ps 2:8.
15. See Rom 11:25.
16. See Mt 2:12.