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To: NYer

According to the preist’s homily today, the Magi were either from Iran or what is now Iraq.

So the word magi/magus comes from Latin....the Arabic word is majus. Interesting similarity...

3 posted on 01/04/2009 3:41:50 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (The Middle East: We put the OIL in TURMOIL!)

To: G8 Diplomat

According to the preist’s homily today, the Magi were either from Iran or what is now Iraq.

Interesting ... did he say how he arrived at that conclusion? Is it possible one may have been from Syria and or Egypt?

5 posted on 01/04/2009 3:53:45 PM PST by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)

To: G8 Diplomat

I though they were from Orientar.

"We three kings of Orientar."

10 posted on 01/04/2009 5:58:36 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)

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