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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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<strong>and</strong> very largely in use. Some, such as true balsam,<br />

were worth double <strong>the</strong>ir weight in silver; o<strong>the</strong>rs,<br />

like <strong>the</strong><br />

' I have 80 translated <strong>the</strong> word fA^pov, which <strong>the</strong><br />

A.V. renders * ointment.' <strong>The</strong> word is evidently <strong>the</strong><br />

Hebrew <strong>and</strong> Rabbinic ^Of which, however, is not<br />

always <strong>the</strong> equivalent for myrrh, but seems also to<br />

mean musk <strong>and</strong> mattio. In short, I regard it as<br />

designating any fluid unguent—or, genenJly<br />

speaking, * perfume.' 80 00m-<br />

mon was <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> perfumes, that Ber. vi. 6<br />

mentions a mt^mor, or a kind <strong>of</strong> incense, which<br />

was commonly burnt after a feast. As regards <strong>the</strong><br />

woid * alahastror^ <strong>the</strong> name was given to perfumephials<br />

in general, even if not made <strong>of</strong> aJalttster,<br />

because <strong>the</strong> latter wm so freqaentlY usol for Buoh<br />

flaakA,<br />

FROM JORDAN TO THE MOUNT OF<br />

TRANSFIGURATION.

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