Note 57 — Chapter IV · BIRTH AND EARLIEST EVENTS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS.
George Eliot translation
According to Hoffmann (p. 256), that he might control the assertion of the magi by inquiring of his own astrologers, whether they had seen the star at the same time. This is not merely unsupported by the text—it is in direct contradiction to it, for we are there told that Herod at once gave terrified credence to the magi. ↑