Matthew 2

^{1 b} Wisemen, or Magi, in the Persians and Chaldeans tongue signifie Philosophers, Priests, or astronomers, & are here the first frutes of the Gnetiles that came to worship Christ.

^{1 a} For there is another Beth-lehem in the tribe if Zebulum.

^{1 !} The time and place of Christs birth.

^{2 c} An extraordinarie signe to set forth the Kings honour, whome the worlde did not esteme.

^{2 d} Which was a declaration of that reuerence, which the Gentiles shulde beare vnto Christ.

^{5 e} They colde wel tell of Christ in general: but when they shulde professe his name, and giue him his due honor, thei waxe colde, and shrinke backe.

^{7 f} An euil conscience is a burning fyre.

^{9 g} The starre vanished away before, toe the intent thei shulde tary at Jerusalem, and there inquire of the thing, to the confusion of the Jewes.

^{11 /} Or, fawe.

^{11 h} The Persians maner was not to salute Kings without a present, and therefore they broght of that which was most precious in their contrei, whereof euery one of them offred.

^{11 !} The Wisemen offer their presents.

^{12 i} Promes oght not to be kept, where Gods honour and preaching of his trueth is hindered: or els it oght not to be broken.

^{14 !} Christ fleth into Egypt.

^{15 k} That which was prefigured by the deliuerance of the Israelites out of Egypt, which were Christs Church and his bodie, is now verified, and accomplished in the head Christ.

^{16 !} The yong children are slaine.

^{16 l} Within a certeine tme after.

^{18 m} Herode renewed the sorowe which the Benjamites had suffred long before: yet for all his crueltie he colde not bring to passe, that Christ shulde not reigne.

^{18 n} That is, they were killed & dead.

^{20 o} Thus the faithful may se how God hathe infinite meanes to preserue them from the rage of tyrants.

^{22 /} Or, therefore.

^{23 /} Or, of Nazaret.

^{23 p} Which is holie and confecrated to God, alluding vnto those that were Nazarites in the olde Law, which were a figure of that holines which shulde be manifested in Christ, as was Samson, Joseph, &c.

^{23 !} Joseph turneth into Galile.