

The Magi & the Epiphany
By Eli Stone | December 26, 2020
“And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.”
—Isaiah 60:3
[This star of Christmas] appears not in the night, but in mid-day, while the sun is shining; and this is not within the power of a star, nay not of the moon; for the moon that so much surpasses all, when the beams of the sun appear, straightway hides herself, and vanishes away. But this by the excess of its own splendor overcame even the beams of the sun, appearing brighter than they, and in so much light shining out more illustriously.
—St. John Chrysostom, Homily 6 on Matthew, chap. 3