The Way Of Return

Et responso accepto, usque, per aliam viam reversa sunt in regionem suam. Regio nostra est paradisus, ad quam per obedientiam reverti debet genus humanum, quod inde per inobedientiam expulsum est. Herodes vero significent diabolum, ad quem redire post acceptam fidem prohibemur. Sanctus Beda, In Matthaei Evangelium Expositio, Liber I, Cap II Source: Migne PL 92.13d

'And being warned...they returned to their own land by another way.' 1 Our land is paradise, to which the human race should return by obedience, from which it was expelled by disobedience. However Herod signifies the devil, to whom we are prohibited from returning after receiving the faith. Saint Bede, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Book 1, Chap 2 1 Mt 2.12