1. What does "reason" dictate according to the author? What does "reason" assure?
According to the author, "reason" dictates that if any one of these men actually came from God, the least thing that God could do to support His claim would be to pre-announce His coming. Reason assures us that if God did not pre-announce His coming, then there would be nothing preventing any impostor from appearing in history saying, "I come from God."
2. According to the author in Chapter 1, how did the Magi of the East know of His coming?
According to the narrator in Chapter 1, the Magi of the East probably knew of His coming from the many prophecies circulated through the world by the Jews as well as through the prophecy made to the Gentiles by Daniel centuries before His birth.
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