Pseudo-Chrysostom, on Matt 2:7

“Then Herod, privately calling the wise men, learned diligently of them the time of the star which appeared to them;”

“As soon as Herod had heard the answer, though doubly authenticated, both by the authority of the Priests, and the passage from the Prophets, he yet turned not to worship the King that was to be born, but sought how he might put Him to death by subtilty. He saw that the Magi were neither to be won by flattery, nor awed by threats, nor bribed by gifts, to consent to this murder; he sought therefore to deceive them; he privily called the wise men; that the Jews, whom he suspected, might not know of it. For he thought they would incline the rather to a King of theirown nation.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.