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Chapter 2 (15) GOSPEL OF MATTHEW
king, they continued on their journey and behold, the star which they had seen in the east was going ahead of them, until it came and stood over the place where the young child was. When they saw the star, they were filled with tremendous joy. En- tering the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and expressed adoration to him. Opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. But having been warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they returned to their own country using another way.
End to the Liturgy and Sixth Hour.
fter they had departed, *behold, an angel of
the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, say- ing, “Arise! Take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.” So Joseph arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt. They remained there until the death of Herod, so that what had been spoken by the Lord through the
At the Ninth Hour before Nativity of Christ, in the Liturgy:
After the wise men had departed...*
This is also read at the Synaxis of the Holy Theotokos, on Sunday after the Nativity of Christ,
and the Holy Infants of Bethlehem.
Per. 4.