What if the three kings were women

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Feb 8, In Western Christianity, the coming of the Magi has been treated as the essential manifestation or revelation of Christ to the Gentiles. We sing of this in the first stanza. We sing of this in the second stanza. This is the important manifestation of who Christ is. Together with the mention of healing, teaching, and forgiving in the third verse that flesh out the life of Jesus, the hymn we are about to sing gathers together all the traditional readings for the season of epiphany, and enriches our understanding the light that has entered our world.

Let us sing it together with a richer awareness of our tradition, as we worship the revelation of God-among-us. Daw, Jr. Westminster John Knox, You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.

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Email Address:. Sign me up! Create a free website or blog at WordPress. The gifts of the magi are also imaginatively interpreted: myrrh, an embalming spice, foretold Jesus death; frankincense symbolized an offering worthy of divinity; and gold represented an appropriate gift for a king.

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In a new short prayer book, the Church of England has decided to refer to them as "magi", because it says the Bible is "silent" on whether they were men or women.

Last night a spokesman for the Church confirmed the decision of the General Synod in preparing the prayer book, Common Worship. He said the Synod knew there were the three gifts for Jesus of gold, frankincense and myrrh but original scripture did not say whether these were from three or fewer visitors, or from men or women.