And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
I stay not to enquire further concerning the divine intimation to those men, but just to remark, how the LORD was watching over the whole of this most interesting event, in relation to CHRIST. But we cannot but be led to hope, that these Wise Men, who came so far to worship the LORD JESUS, and were so evidently guided in their enquiry after him, were brought by the same Almighty teaching, into a saving acquaintance with him. The man of Ethiopia, we read of in the after age of the church, was so blessed. Acts 8:27-39. And it is probable, that the Lord had an eye of grace on those men. But it is remarkable, that there is no further account of them in the word of God. Oh! what unknown, unnumbered multitudes from the East and the West, will arise to the triumphs of the Lord JESUS, when he Comes to make up his jewels! Luke 13:29; 2 Thessalonians 1:10.