Actions of the Wise: What the Magi have to teach us
18th in a series on how men and women in the Bible deal with waiting, disappointment and unemployment Actions of the Wise What the Magi have to teach us What makes a man wise? Can we tell by what he says or doesn’t say? A Proverb states, “Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.” Those ‘Wise Men’ of two thousand years ago. Were they? Wise, I mean. Or was that just another name for Eastern kings or Astrologers? What can we learn from the first 18 verses of the 2nd chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew that could inform how we should face the workplace? We don’t know how many there were…we have assumed three because they brought three gifts, but our Gospel does not declare a number. From historical records we know that they were men who studied the stars and tried to interpret the times according to the movement of the constellations. This star that appeared in the east surprised