When Herod saw that the Magi tricked him, he was exceedingly angry and sent orders to kill all male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
Moreover, wine betrays the arrogant man: He is not at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, he is like death and can’t be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations and gathers all peoples to himself.