The Cave of Treasures 69
The Signs of the Zodiac
They left the East for the mountains of Nódh inside the eastern entrances from the northern lands, taking gold, myrrh, and frankincense.
1nd straightway, according to what they had received from the tradition which had been handed down to them by their fathers, they left the East, and went up to the mountains of Nódh, which lie inside the entrances to the East from the lands on the skirts of the North, and they took from them gold, and myrrh, and frankincense.
2 And from this [passage] understand, O my brother Nemesius, that the Magi knew the whole service of the Dispensation of our Redeemer through the offerings which they brought: the gold was for a king, the myrrh for a physician, and the frankincense fora priest, for the Magi knew Who He was, and that He was a king, and a physician, and a priest.
3 Now when the son of the king of Sheba was a little boy his father brought him to a Rabbi, and he learned the Book of the Hebrews better than all his companions and his fellow countrymen, and he said unto all his slaves, “It is written in all the books of genealogies that the king shall be born in Bethlehem.”
Did You Know?
They left the East for the mountains of Nódh inside the eastern entrances from the northern lands, taking gold, myrrh, and frankincense.
Gold was for a king, myrrh for a physician, and frankincense for a priest, for the Magi knew He was all three.
Nemesius is told the Magi grasped the whole service of the Redeemer Dispensation through the three offerings they brought.
The little son of the king of Sheba learned the Book of the Hebrews from a Rabbi better than all companions and countrymen.
The son of the king of Sheba told all his slaves that books of genealogies said the king shall be born in Bethlehem.
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