5. See Lk 2:11-14.
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NOTES
1. Published in Revue Benedictine 98 (1988) 12; its editor, P. Verbraken, considers it to be, in spite of its brevity, a patchwork of authentic elements. On that supposition, it is presumably impos¬ sible to assign it a date.
2. "Magi" is for us a word that refers only to the chief characters of this particular story. But a magus in Latin was a fairly common kind of person in society: a soothsayer, astrologer, magician.
3. The suggestion is that your purse, your coffers, your bank balance are really a burden or load you are carrying through life; a suggestion which he frequently works out in much more detail. The people are, of course, being urged to give to Christ in the poor.
4. See Lk 22:7. 5. See Lk 2:11-14. 6. Because in the manger, the feeding trough. 7. See Mk 11:7-11.