A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 208
ions from the reality they found,their faith was equal to the demand upon it, and they bowed down,thus giving themselves first, and then presented the gold, which sig-nified that Jesus was king; the frankincense, that he was God; andthe myrrh, that he was suffering man, and must yield to death.… … 192 LEGENDS AND STORIES rial, one of the linen bands in ■wliich she had wi-apped the divinechild. Being warned in a dream they returned not to Herod, butwent another way. There is a legend that their homeward joirrneywas made in ships; and in a commentary on the psalms of the fifthcentury it is…
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