[GreyFriar]

What people today forget, or probably do not know, is that the ‘fleeing from Judea to Egypt’ was not going from one country/nation to another. Both Judea and Egypt were part of the Roman Empire, each with Roman administrators and following Roman law. Thus ‘fleeing from Judea to Egypt’ was NOT going from one country to another but going, in American parlance, they were merely moving from one state to another, e.g. leaving California for Texas or from Maryland to Indiana.

[John Leland 1789]

" . . . the ‘fleeing from Judea to Egypt’ was not going from one country/nation to another. Both Judea and Egypt were part of the Roman Empire, each with Roman administrators and following Roman law. Thus ‘fleeing from Judea to Egypt’ was NOT going from one country to another but going, in American parlance, they were merely moving from one state to another, e.g. leaving California for Texas or from Maryland to Indiana."

This is correct. There are people up here ignorantly using the "flight into Egypt" to justify open borders; no need for visas to cross borders.

[Westbrook]

Excellent point!