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Three Wise Men.
Posted: May 5th, 2022, 5:19 pm
by richlist
The Three Wise men who visited the baby Jesus took gold, frankincense & myrrh.
Does anyone know what myrrh was ?........please don't say car polish.
Re: Three Wise Men.
Posted: May 5th, 2022, 5:23 pm
by UncleEbenezer
's embalming fluid, innit?
Re: Three Wise Men.
Posted: May 5th, 2022, 5:27 pm
by richlist
But, embalming fluid is for use on dead people.......why take embalming fluid ?
Re: Three Wise Men.
Posted: May 5th, 2022, 5:29 pm
by Breelander
richlist wrote:Does anyone know what myrrh was ?........
Myrrh ... is a gum-resin extracted from a number of small, thorny tree species of the genus Commiphora. Myrrh resin has been used throughout history as a perfume, incense and medicine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrrh
Re: Three Wise Men.
Posted: May 5th, 2022, 6:34 pm
by quelquod
richlist wrote:The Three Wise men who visited the baby Jesus ...
Three?
Re: Three Wise Men.
Posted: May 5th, 2022, 8:00 pm
by bungeejumper
richlist wrote:But, embalming fluid is for use on dead people.......why take embalming fluid ?
At school they taught us that it was all part of a mystic prophecy about Jesus's certain death.
Okay, at the time I expect an XBox would have made a more fun gift for the kid - and for that matter, a spare sheepskin would also have been more useful for the warmth. But, with the benefit of hindsight, subsequent tale-tellers thought better to discard such practical considerations and give him a circular link forward to his impending doom. I mean, that's what myths and sagas and legends do, innit?
BJ
Re: Three Wise Men.
Posted: May 5th, 2022, 8:35 pm
by Eboli
I am with bungeejumper. It is worth noting that in the famous carol We Three Kings there is the reference verse:
Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes a life of gathering gloom;
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying.
Sealed in the stone cold tomb.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember there is a reference in Isaiah to the Messiah being King (gold), Priest (frankincense) and Prophet (Myrrh) but I can't find it. Perhaps it's in another Old testament book.
Eb.