Commentaries:Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Matthew 2:9
Went before them (prohgen autouv). Imperfect tense, kept on in front of them, not as a guide to the town since they now knew that, but to the place where the child was, the inn according to Luke 2:7. Justin Martyr says that it was in a cave. The stall where the cattle and donkeys stayed may have been beneath the inn in the side of the hill.
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