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CHAP. XIV. * * PERSIA AND TIIE THREE KINGS
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So it carne to pass when they had come to the place
where the Child was born, the youngest of the Three
Kings went in first, and found the Child apparently
just of his own age.; so he went forth again marvelling
greatly. The middle one entered next, and like the
first he found the Child seemingly of his own age ;
so he also went forth again and marvelled greatly.
Lastly, the eldest went in, and as it had befallen the
other two, so it befell him. And he went forth very
pensive. And when the three had rejoined one
another, each told what he had seen ; and then they all
marvelled the more. So they agreed to go in all
three together, and on doing so they beheld the Child
with the appearance of its actual age, to wit, some
thirteen days.2 Then they adored, and presented their
Gold and Incense and Myrrh. And the Child took
all the three offerings, and then gave them a small
closed box ; whereupon the Kings departed to return
into their own land.
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NOTE I. —Kaki' Atishparastán, meaning as in the text. (Marsden.)
NOTE 2.—According to the Collectanea ascribed to Bede, Melchior was a hoary old man ; Balthazar in his prime, with a beard ; Gaspar young and beardless. (Inchofer, Tres Magi Evangelici, Romae, 1639.)
CHAPTER XIV.
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WHAT BEFELL WHEN THE THREE KINGS RETURNED TO THEIR OWN
COUNTRY.
AND when they had ridden many days they said they
would see what the Child had given them. So they
opened the little box, and inside it they found a stone.
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