Tag: <span>Myrrh</span>

Song of Solomon 1:12  While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. Song of Solomon 1:13  A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. Song of Solomon 1:14  My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. “The spikenard is a lowly herb, the emblem of humility.” “…as Mary did when she anointed Jesus’ feet with the ointment of spikenard that was very costly, one pound of it worth three hundred pence, and so fragrant that the house was filled with the pleasing odor of it. (John_12:3) ‘Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.” Very precious and fragrant, an herb grown…