[378] St Matthew ii. 1-12.
[379] Poema, 27; Natal, 9, v. 47 et seqq. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxi. 649.
[380] Sedatus, Hom. de Epiph. Migne, lxxii. 773. Maximus Taur., Hom. 7 in Epiph. Migne, lvii. 271. “Fuerunt enim hodie ... quid potissimum præsenti hoc factum sit die, noverit ipse, qui fecit.”
[381] Augustin., Sermo supposit., 136, c. 1, and the hymn “Illuminans Altissimus,” in Kayser, Hymnen, 2nd ed., 370. See also the article “Feste” by Funk and Krieg in Kraus’s Realenzyklopädie.
[382] This also appears from the fact that some, as Philastrius (De Hær., c. 140) informs us, omitted Epiphany and kept Christmas alone.
[383] Comm. in Ezech., i. 1.
[384] Chrysost., Hom. ad Pop. Ant. de Bapt. Chr., c. 2. Migne, Patr. Gr., xlix. 363 et seq. It appears from this sermon that the Antiochene Christians were in the habit of taking some of the baptismal water home with them, and keeping it for a year without its becoming corrupt.
[385] Augustin., Sermo 202, c. 2.
[386] Cæsaraug., A.D. 380, can. 3. Ammianus Marc., op. cit. Passio S. Philippi Heracleensis in Ruinart, Acta, 440, c. 2.
[387] Epiphanius (Hær., 51, c. 16 and 24), Ephrem, Cassian, etc. See above, [pp. 128 seqq.]