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8All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad{H8765)}.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. …
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)We have here the royal bridegroom filling his throne with judgment and keeping his court with splendour. I. He here fills his throne with judgment. It is God the Father that says to the Son here, Thy throne, O God! is forever and ever , as appears Heb. 1:8 , 9 , where this is quoted to prove that he is God and has a more excellent name than the angels . The Mediator is God, else he neither would h…
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