Where was the Holy Family when the Magi visited them in Bethlehem? In a house or manger?
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Where was the Holy Family when the Magi visited them in Bethlehem (Mt. 2:8 )? In a house or manger?
Mt. 2:11 says: "entering into the **house** (*domum*, οικίαν), they [the Magi] found the child with Mary his mother". St. Matthew's Gospel doesn't use the word φάτνη (manger, *præsæpe*). Did the Holy Family move into a house in Bethlehem before the Magi appeared to them?
However, the Magnificat antiphon for Vespers on Epiphany says: "this day a star led the wise men to the manger (*præsépium*)".
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