Then Herod having privately sent for the Magi, enquired of them the exact time when the star appeared.

and he sent them to Bethlehem, go, said he, make an exact enquiry about the young child, and when ye have found him, let me know it, that I too may come and pay my adorations to him.

exact, said he, no more than what the law requires.

for I was in fear of you, knowing you to be a hard master, who exact what you never gave, and reap where you have never sown.

then he said, I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but had my education in this city: at the feet of Gamaliel I was instructed in the law, and in the exact decisions of our fathers, and was as religiously zealous as you are at this time.

It is not necessary, my brethren, to specify the exact time:

and officiate in the sanctuary, which was a gross representation of that in heaven, agreeable to the order given by God to Moses, when he projected the tabernacle, "be very exact, said he, in following the model which was laid before thee in the mount."

For the law being only an allusion to a future dispensation that was more excellent, and not an exact imitation of such a state, cannot by the anniversary sacrifices, which are offered, entirely purify those that present themselves.

leaving an example for your exact imitation, he who never offended, and from whose lips no fallacy was ever utter'd,