"Give the Magi" or "Adoration of the Magi" is a riddle in the Gospel of Matthew, a story about magicians who came to worship Jesus with special gifts. Christians and Catholics svyatokuyut tsyu podiyu 6 Sichnya like the day of the Epiphany, although in the texts this date varies.

Who are the Magi?

"Magi" are translated from Greek - "magicians", Herodotus pointed out in his practice that these people are representatives of the tribe of the Medes - a special caste, as they testified for the religion of the entire people. Who are the Magi in the Bible? The Old Testament stinks like wise men and clairvoyants, who live among the Medes and Persians, and in the New Testament it is written about the sorcerers only once, if you recognized the Nemovlya of Jesus as the King of the Jews. According to tradition, the mitts portrayed three magicians who worshiped God as people of a different age:

• yunak - from the African race;
• mature person - European;
• gray old - similar tones.

Give the Magi.

Who are the sorcerers and їhnі give? At the bіblіynykh opіvіdah stink more zagaduyutsya, like the three kings of the other lands, like they came to recognize the power of the new ruler of Judea. The holy gift of the sorcerers wasted three objects, to which three prohachs were taken in opposition. If you want at the pracies of Blessed Augustine that John Chrysostom is guessing that there were twelve sorcerers, other legends call a greater number.

It is a day in some European countries, if the Volodarians came to bow to Jesus, they are called the saint of the three kings, in Spain they will rule on the 5th day of the cavalcades. How to give, if the Magi arrived to Bethlehem, there are some versions:

1. For the traditions of Orthodoxy - in twelve days.
2. Behind the legends of this church, the months after Christmas passed.
3. In the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, there are two fates on the day of the birth of God not to worship.

What did the Magi bring as a gift to Jesus?

The teachings of Christ Matthew foretell that the sorcerers ruled far away in other lands. If they beat the Bethlehem star in the sky, they recognized it as banners and followed it. Arriving in Jerusalem, they turned their backs to King Herod, to be recognized as the new King of the Jews. Tієї vіdpovіdі to give not a moment, and having asked the magicians himself, they said, de such a thing, nіbito in order to graft. The rulers went far behind the night light to Bethlehem, where they knew the Virgin Mary with little Jesus.

What did the Magi bring as a gift to the Divine Infant? To all the objects of the saying, attribute a special meaning:

• gold - separation of power;
• incense - a gift to Sin of God;
• myrrh - knowledge that Christ is still mortal.

What did the gift of the Magi mean?

Give the sorcerers to Christ - shanovanny shrine to all believers, a unique vitvir of the mysticism of ancient masters. There are 28 plates made of golden threads, soldered into the original visor, which symbolize the ancient technique of grain filigree. Grain - small golden bags, like standing over a handkerchief and making them rich. The visor, be it of them, is unique, and all forms are three and chotiric. To the geometric figures, threads of srіbla with sixty beads from frankincense and myrrh are attached.

Those, like gifts, brought the sorcerers to Jesus, to witness that the old magicians once recognized the fact: the light of the right King of Judea appeared. That is why they chose expensive gifts even before Bogonemovlya was beaten. At the symbol of the gifts of the day, the clerks chanted the vision of God to people, that the prophets, who prophesied the people of the Sin of God, spoke the truth. In the second version, nibito give the Magi gave rise to the tradition of exchanging gifts for Christmas, and later - handing them to the new people.

What was the name of the sorcerer, what was the gift brought?

The names of the Magi, as if they appeared before the little Christ, are on the mosaic of the Italian Church of San Apolinar: Caspar, Melchior and Belthazar. In one of the retellings, the fourth sorcerer is also guessed - Artabon. Vcheni vvazhayut that the three kings took away their names only for an hour of the Middle Ages. To that in other peoples of the first, who bowed to Jesus, the Volodar were called differently:

1. Avimelech, Ohozat, Fikol - among the early Christians;
2. Hormizd, Yazgerd, Peroz - among the Syrians;
3. Apellikon, Amerin and Damascon - among the Greeks;
4. Magalakh, Galgalakh and Serakin - among Jews

Where do the gifts of the Magi save?

The legends seem to give the sorcerers to Jesus the Virgin Mary, who saw the Russian community of Christians, and later the plates of gold were transported to the church of St. Sophia near Constantinople. The Turks plundered the place near the 15th century, the prince of Serbia Maria Brankovich decided to take the shrine to Athos, there for five hundred years it was saved at the monastery of St. Paul. For the relics, special arks were built, and sometimes the gifts of the Magi were brought to the home temples of the world, so that they could bend down.

Three wise men who came to the newly born Jesus

Now the hour has come to talk about the three wise men. As you know, when Jesus was born, three wise men came before him and prophesied that the Great Future would come, saying that I would become the King of the Jews. The wise men came right away, pumping the star, and, “having opened their belongings, they brought Yom a gift: gold, frankincense and myrrh” (Matthew 2:11). Smyrna - tse myrrh, odorous resin for arable land.

The names of the Magi: Caspar, Belshazzar and Melchior. They sounded that all three wise men were human, but not so. It is an impersonal image, on which it is clearly seen that the sorcerer Melchior, who was taken to be respected by a man, is truly a woman.

And now we wonder at the names of the sorcerers, but at the same time we guess the future all-world (mal. 126a). Tsey little ones can be understood in this way (Fig. 126 b):

Rice. 125. Adoration of the Magi from the fresco of the Cathedral in Bonn, XV century. Magus Melchior stand in the middle

Rice. 126 a. Budova Rozumu

Rice. 126 b. Rozum - tse kokhannya

Father, the names of the Magi. Let's get back to Belshazzar. Belshazzar - Baal king - king of the Lower Kingdom - Volos - the Power of Life - the human beginning.

Melchior - spruce M / Um - great Mind / Wisdom. Here you can let it go, what to say about Makosh - Mother-empty - woman's cob. І tse dіysno so, to that with the key є chior.

Hior - arche - hero - heron. Heron z wretzkoy is translated like "old", sound like a word hero(bring respect to the root dick in these words). Arche on the same Greek it means “cob, elder, highest” (dick the ear of the ear, and vіn vishche for all). Otzhe, in the name of Melchior, we can have two words that mean a higher position of the subject, about how to go: spruceі hior/arche, yakі at once you can shift like the most. Todi im'ya Melchior can be accurately translated as "The Naive Rosum", but tse i є Wisdom. In this rank, we can rightly be right with the Great Mother, Wisdom / Empty, like lying on the very cob, at the base of the world.

To come out that before the newly born Christ came the human and the woman's cob at the sight of the primary forces of Volos and Makosh. Those that Melchior and Belshazzar are a couple, showing the name Kaspar. Caspar - saspar - sus couple - sus couple . Cicavo, that there are a lot of middle-aged paintings that depict three wise men, unequivocally point to those that Belshazzar and Melchior are a couple (in the book, vol. 4, such paintings are given without a face).

What is sus? Yak me with you z'yasuvali in, vol. 2 “a person whose spiritual essence has become a name and has become a disguise”. Sus is the spiritual vaga of the existent / essence, and all things exist to take revenge on their own couple: a human and a woman on the cob - Belshazzar and Melchior, that Hair and Makosh, the power of Life and Wisdom is vidpovidno.

We unite all three names in one unit, having united in one little one. What are we matimemo? That very little one, which they already looked at: a man and a woman on the cob, united suttu - love (div. fig. 127). In my opinion, it is not necessary to bring that love and sus (the root of the name Jesus) are the same.

Rice. 127. The meaning of the names of the three wise men

To go out, if Jesus was born, the essence came to the new one - a couple, as if the beginning of a human being, the Power of Life and Wisdom, united by love. What do the words “when Jesus was born” mean? If the “I” of a person is in the world and transforms into God, the Knowledge / Essence will come before her, like Love unites in itself the Power of Life and Wisdom. Prote yak richly bachili that our ancestors knew! I renew that the story of Christ is not a literal description of the life of a person, but a symbolic description of the path of the transformation of a person to God. It’s necessary to have it clearly, otherwise we’ll never go out of empty faith into the life of Christ.

Who are the Magi?

The evangelist calls the wise men and the wise men Magi. The stinks led the guard for the stars, as if they were passing on the people of Christ. The ancient prophecy was seen by the magi, and the stench violated to Bethlehem. There, the stinks ochіkuval bachiti of the Tsar of Glory, who appeared in the world. The Volkhvіv was a sprig, ale Evangelii doesn't seem to be, the skіlki themselves and yak їх were called. Today, it is important that there were three wise men, skilki and gifts, but this information was supplemented, which already appeared in the early Christian literature.

Sound in Christianity, the sorcerers are represented in the images of three people of different age: the young Balthazar, the mature Melchior and the old man - Caspar. In addition, the Magi represent the three sides of the world. Balthasar is portrayed as an African, Melchior as a European, and Caspar as an Asian. At the borders, three of them immediately took martyrdom, and if they were christened by the Apostle Khoma. The Empress Olena of Constantinople knew these powers, and she saved a threefold hour from Constantinople.

Gift of the Magi

Did the Magi come?

Nothing is said about the names of the Magi in the Gospel - they stink from Retelling. The apostle Matthew writes about the worship of the newly born Christ and some of the Evangelists, others have omitted this fact. Ale, logical explanation. Matthew wrote his gospels for the people of Israel, to which the text should be avenged by anonymous statements that are fundamentally important to the people themselves.

At the New Year's Eve, the Christians will say the Evangelical rosary about the worship of the newly born Christ of the Magi, who were led to the New Miracle Star over Bethlehem. The Magi brought gifts - gold, incense and myrrh. Pieces of the Gift of the Magi are one of the few relics that have been tied to the earthly life of the Savior to this day.

Who are the Magi?

In the Gospel, the word "sorcerers" means wise men and wise men. Keeping watch over the heavenly bodies, the stench roamed the unknown before the appearance and, knowing about the ancient prophecy, they violated to Bethlehem, in order to plead the King of Glory, who was born. The evangelists themselves did not guess the number of names of the sorcerers - the story about three (for the number of gifts) sorcerers (at the entrance - kings) appeared in the early Christian literature and added to the Serednyovichchi.

The synodal translation of the Scriptures, the zokrema of the New Testament, to bring in the slander of the swindler of the term "sorcerer". From one side, go about the people, as if they came to bow down to the newly-born Jesus Christ. About them zgaduєtsya in the Gospel in the form of Matthew (a friend of the voice.), I stink, insanely, positive characters. On the other side, at the “Diyannakh”, at the eighth division, they tell about Simon, who was engaged in sorcery. Having prayed that the indulgence of the people of the Holy Spirit allows him to work great miracles, he brought pennies to the apostles, asking them to sell the gift. From that hour, the trade in church estates is called simony. In such a rank, the sorcerer, which is guessed in "Diya", is a chaklun, who tries to see himself as a great one. In a word, a charlatan. What does “wizards” mean, what is the etymology of this word?

What did they give Nemovlya-Christ?

On Christmas Day it is customary to give gifts one to one. This tradition is no less than the image of St. Nicholas, who became the prototype of Santa Claus for his kind and generous heart. Vaughn may and evangelical root. As it is said in Scripture, three wise men came to bow down to the newly born Christ. In Russian tradition, it is customary to call them Magi. There were all the people who were busy with the guards of the dawn sky. The stench brought Nemovl to Jesus gifts - gold, frankincense and myrrh. The name of the sorcerer was Kaspar, Balthazar and Melchior.
Did the Magi come?

Nothing is said about the names of the Magi in the Gospel - they stink from Retelling. The apostle Matthew writes about the worship of the newly born Christ and some of the Evangelists, others have omitted this fact. Ale, logical explanation.

Gift of the Magi: how to zastosovuvat myrrh? Let's talk once again about the dear gifts of the Volkhviv: The first gift-givers Nemovlyat Jesus, as you remember the New Commandment, were the sorcerers, as if they knew the way to Bethlehem. It is not necessary to think that the star in the literal sense went before them like a sky. Matthew seems to be my poetic. Ale Zirka shone over Bethlehem. It’s a miracle legend about those who, having worked their way like a traveler, fell into the Bethlehem’s spring and is still found there, where people, whose hearts are pure, can still be found.

Lots of legends to talk about the Magi. Zgidno with an early retelling - there were twelve of them. But now, the tradition of honoring that there were three of them has become quite accepted, for in the New Testament it is said that the stench brought three gifts.

The voni brought youma gifts of gold, incense and myrrh. Qi donated were broken not so. The skin of the three gifts had a sung sense.

Give, yaks brought to Jesus

The Magi were the first pagans, as if they bowed not to Jesus as the Messiah, but to the “King of the Jews”. Going for the star, the stench came from the Descent to Bethlehem with gifts at the sight of gold, incense and myrrh. Nine Christians worship the relics of these magical astrologers and these signs of honor, like the stench brought by the Savior.
Tim, who wants to pamper the gift of the Magi, to be brought to the viruši on a pilgrimage to Athos, to the monastery of St. Paul. Truth is, my ability can become less strong - a woman at a long-standing abode of human Orthodox piety, so that they don’t let them go to rest for the Chentsi.
Athonite chantsi saved dearly for the people of the gift of the Magi Donin. The Greek temples of the monastery of St. Paul avenge the relics of a few small arks - relics. Chance is good to understand, the skill is great for spiritual pilgrims, historical is the archeological value of the gifts of the Magi, the stench of the nightly services is to be blamed for bowing down to all the guests of the monastery.

Vaughn may and evangelical root. As it is said in Scripture, three wise men came to bow down to the newly born Christ. In Russian tradition, it is customary to call them Magi. There were all the people who were busy with the guards of the dawn sky. The stench brought Nemovl to Jesus gifts - gold, frankincense and myrrh. The name of the sorcerer was Kaspar, Balthazar and Melchior. Did the Magi come?

Nothing is said about the names of the Magi in the Gospel - they stink from Retelling. The apostle Matthew writes about the worship of the newly born Christ and some of the Evangelists, others have omitted this fact. Ale, logical explanation. Matthew wrote his gospel for the people of Israel, to that yogo text to avenge the mass of statements, which are fundamentally important for the people themselves and for them themselves to understand the words. Let’s say, the earthly “kind” of Christ, from which the Gospels of Matthew are inspired, the quotation from the ancient prophecies, quotations from the Psalms are all a code of their own, like Israel could recognize its Messiah.

7. Kim were sorcerers and what did the stench give the nemovlyats of Jesus?

For the first time, the wise men speak in the first place of Herodotus in the first book of "History". They call them magicians and respect them as one of the tribes of the Medes. At the Persian court, the stench was victorious by the priestly functions - they were astrologers and tlumachs of dreams. The Magi were the priests of Mitry - a cult that expanded widely in the Roman Empire in the era of early Christianity.

Matvey, it seems that the wise men came "on the skhodu", but do not specify, the stars themselves. Justin Martyr, Epiphanius, Tertullian respected that the Magi came from Arabia; John Chrysostom and Basil the Great, who is from Persia, and Augustine, who is from Chaldea. It is clear that it is not the Jews and that their country (or the country) lies on the edge of Palestine.

At the monuments of the Byzantine art, the Magi stand from the same land. You naturally come to such a visnovka, bachachi their similarity with the look of the national type and costumes.

On Christmas Day it is customary to give gifts one to one. This tradition is no less than the image of St. Nicholas, who became the prototype of Santa Claus for his kind and generous heart. Vaughn may and evangelical root. As it is said in Scripture, three wise men came to bow down to the newly born Christ. In Russian tradition, it is customary to call them Magi. There were all the people who were busy with the guards of the dawn sky. The stench brought Nemovl to Jesus gifts - gold, frankincense and myrrh. The name of the sorcerer was Kaspar, Balthazar and Melchior.
Did the Magi come?

Nothing is said about the names of the Magi in the Gospel - they stink from Retelling. The apostle Matthew writes about the worship of the newly born Christ and some of the Evangelists, others have omitted this fact. Ale, logical explanation. Matthew wrote his gospel for the people of Israel, to that yogo text to avenge the mass of statements, which are fundamentally important for the people themselves and for them themselves to understand the words.

Since the moment of the great New Year's Eve of Christ, over two thousand years have passed, and the tradition of bestowing blessings on one's neighbor has been preserved. Once upon a time, the great saint is deprived, and on the whole day it is so customary to give gifts to your relatives and loved ones.

Gift of the Magi

Wise men are called wise men in the Gospel, they believed in the power of the stars, looking for a sign, if there is a supernatural nemesis to be born, the future Savior. The stench came first to welcome Christ, who appeared in the world, and brought gifts to you. For orders, later on, the stench accepted the faith of Christ and were beaten, or they died in agony. The relics of the sorcerers are rebuffed at the cathedral near the city of Cologne, where they were brought from Constantinople.

Silence to Jesus was presented on Christmas with myrrh (tree resin), incense and gold, which meant three speeches: he was judged to die, he was judged by God and the King on earth. A part of these gifts was saved and rozkidan in the Christian world.

AthosGive the sorcerers - gold, frankincense and myrrh, brought by similar sorcerers as a gift to the newly-born Nemovlya Jesus. The stink saved the donins. Gold - twenty large small plates of various shapes with the thinnest filigree ornament. On each of the plates, the ornament is not repeated. Frankincense and myrrh are small, olive groves, bags, there are about seventy of them. The gifts of the Magi are taken from the arks on the Holy Mount Athos (Greece) near the monastery of St. Pavlo.

also: Shroud of Turin

Historical digression

About worshiping similar wise men who brought gifts - gold, frankincense and myrrh - God-worshiping Christ, rozpovidaetsya in the Gospel in the form of Matthew.

Having pumped the star, the stench greeted the great joy, and, having gone home, they pumped Nemovlya with Mary, Yogo’s mother, and, having fallen, bowed to Yoma; And, having opened their belongings, they brought Yomu a gift: gold, frankincense and myrrh. (Mt. 2:9-11)

Adoration of the Magi

It is important that in ancient times, having created a special number of people, as if they were led by the secret houses of light. About these mandrіvniki-wise men are told in the Bible, in the episode about the people of Jesus Christ. The sorcerers themselves came first to bow down to Jesus. The place of the people of the Messiah appointed a star. The Magi bowed silently, like kings, and brought you a gift: gold, frankincense and myrrh. Dead men were smeared with tar pitch.

Father, the sorcerers knew who they worshiped, they transferred all the yoga of earthly life in advance.

And whom did the slov'yani call the magi? People, yakі small taєmnі znannya, slaughter the past and future. Imovirno the word "sorcerer" resembles the name of the god Veles, and step by step turned into "enchantment".

The wise men served the greater powers, and they themselves could pour in various manifestations. Everyday life in the ancient communities, from the people of the people to death, could not do without these wise men.

Further on, the Evangelical rhyme about the veneration of the Magi (Matt. 2 ch.) is more familiar. Tse, persh for everything, tell about " epiphanies”, for the manifestation of Christ to the pagans.

Sche Josip and the Blessed Matir of God with the Silence of Jesus were left at Bethlehem, as if from a distant land immediately (from Persia and Babylonia) the sorcerers came to Jerusalem.

Magi, or wise men, were called all the people, as if they were engaged in guarding and watching the stars. These people believed that from the people of the great people a new star appeared in the sky. Many pagans near the borders of Persia, trained by Russian people, knew about the future near the Holy Messiah - the Great King of Israel. The Jewish stench could know the coming prophecy of Balaam about the Messiah: “I’m running Yogo, but there’s still nothing left. I see Yogo, but not close. Descend the Zirka in the sight of Jacob and raise the Wand in the face of Israel, and (Bin) defeat the princes of Moab” (Numbers 24:17), here “Moab” is the special gates of the Messiah. The Persian sorcerers checked that if the obіtsyany Tsar was born, a new star would appear in the sky. Although the prophecy of Balaam spoke about the zirka in spiritual sense, but the Lord, from His mercy, to bring the pagans to faith, giving banners in the sky at the sight of the appearance of an overhead star. After pumping її, the sorcerers realized that the tsar was born.

After three years and far more expensive stench, they came, they went to the capital of the Kingdom of Judea, Jerusalem, and they began to inquire: “ De born King of the Jews? Bo mi bachili Yomu's star at the gathering, and came to bow Yomu". The words of such strangers of ignoramuses were thrown to the bagats of Meshchanians in Rusalim, and especially to King Herod, who was informed about the arrival of enigmatic apostates of the teachings.

From the first days of the reign, the throne of Iroda was hisst. The people hate Yogo, respecting Yogo as a usurper of David's throne and a tyrant and rowing him, like a heathen. The rest of the fates of the life of Irod were further aggravated by special injustices and crooked massacres. Vіn becoming ukrai pіdozrilіm i z the least drive strativ of their obvious and obvious enemies. For reasons of reason, a sprinkling of children of Iroda perished, and to build up his squad, as before, he was dearly loving. Sick and old Irod now living at his new palace in Zion. Feeling about the Tsar, that he was born, Vin especially huffed, fearing that people would not speed up his old age, so that they would take into the new power and transfer it to the newly born Tsar.

Sob z'yasuvati, who is the new contender for the yoga throne, Irod took to himself all the priests and scribes, - people, as if they knew the books of the Holy Letter well, and asked them: “ De may be born to Christ?” Von yelled: “ In Jewish Bethlehem, for it is written in the prophet Micah". Todі Irod taєmno called to himself the Magi, having seen from them an hour the stars appeared and sent them to Bethlehem. Pretending to be pious, cunning Herod said to them: “ Go and find out more about Nemovlya there, and if you know Yogo, come and tell me, so that I can immediately bow down to Yomu.". Truly, the Іrod zbiravsya skoristatisya їhnіm vodomlennyam, schob zraditi Silence of death.

The wise men, having heard Tsar Irod and suspecting nothing, went to Bethlehem. І axis new zirka, Yaku stench raged at the Skhodі, appeared in the sky, rushing across the sky, walked in front of them, showing them the way. At Bethlehem, the star was ringing over this place, where Nemovlya Іsus was known, as if it was born.

The sorcerers saw in the house and succumbed to Child Jesus and mother Yogo. The stench bowed down to the ground to Yoma and brought Yoma to give his own. gold, incense and myrrh(expensive oil). The gifts of the Magi can have such a symbolic meaning. They brought gold stench to Yomu, like a Tsar (at the sight of a tribute), incense, like God (because incense gets used during worship), and myrrh, like a Lyudin, like a guilty person to die (for in that hour the dead were anointed with olives, zmishany with arable land). meek).

Having bowed to the mustache of the ochіkuvannogo Tsar, the sorcerers climbed, it was about the coming day to turn to Jerusalem to Herod. Ale Angel, appearing in the sky, saw the steps of the people of Irod and ordered them to turn back to their own country, taking another path, so as not to pass the battle of Jerusalem. The retelling saved the names of the Magi, and then they became Christians. Tse buli Melchior, Gaspar and Belshazzar.

In rospovidi about the New Year of Christ, it is still miraculous that the shepherds bowed first, that they were born to the Savior, right children of nature, as they could show before Him only the treasures of their hearts, complete simplicity, faith and humility. Significantly later, the sorcerers came from the Gathering, full of eternal wisdom, who threw gold, frankincense and myrrh in front of Godless worship at once, out of reverent joy. The stench was guilty of building a long way, the first reached the Jews and navit, while already in Jerusalem, they could not even know the place of the people of the king of Judea. Let's not talk about those who, with simplicity of heart and deep total vigilance, lead to Christ. Ale, the first path is straight, the short one and the other way. The shepherds were caring for the Angels without interruption, and the sorcerers “learned A Husya” in the form of a wordless star and through Iroda in the form of scribes and elders of the Jews. Not without difficulties, that trouble reached the stench of the bazhano meth and did not smell the heavenly harmony that lulled over the earth - “ Glory to the cherry Gods and the earth, peace, goodwill in people”(Dumia of Metropolitan Anastasia).

Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ was born. Even though it became quiet, the whole world knows about it. One of the details of the ancient history, which is most forgotten, is the visit of the sorcerers and their gift to the unfaithful Jesus.

Let's take a look at this episode at once, so that we can better understand the Bible retelling.

Magi - all priests or magicians, as if they came to the newly born Jesus, following Bethlehem's Zirka

We know about the Magi from the New Testament. Let's make a call to the people of Jesus Christ, the author of the Gospel of Matthew:

“If Jesus was born to Bethlehem of Judea during the days of King Herod, they came to Jerusalem the sorcerer at once and say: where was the king of Judea born? for we sipped Yomu's star at the gathering, and came to bow down to Yomu."

Zirka, about how to go, is a riddle for historians and theologians. Є different thoughts:

• comet;
• conjuncture of Jupiter and Saturn;
• marvel, as there is nothing known about astronomy.

Ale about everything in order. Who are these sorcerers, who went for the Bethlehem star?

Magi buli mages, chi priests zі Skhodu.

Nayimovіrnіshe, go about the victims from the Middle East and Persia. The text of the Bible draws itself on such an interpretation. However, the Holy Letter lives on the word, as if it could be translated like this:

• sorcerer;
• enchanter.

Given the importance of the idea about the victims, we still cannot unequivocally affirm that they were representatives of the Persian clergy, and not chakluni. Too little for information.

So some people call them kings (kings - in the Orthodox tradition).

The wise men could know the Jewish retellings, they worshiped Christ - the vicons of the prophecy from the Old Testament

How did it turn out that foreigners and innovators zatsіkalis to the people of Christ? Right in the fact that the Jewish retellings were not new to them. For six hundred years the Jewish religion was already well known at the Skhodі.

The Jews were in full at Babylon, so that the seed of their culture was forever abandoned in quiet lands.

Wise people, for the sake of the victims, could not help but cluck with similar knowledge, and they were aware of the Biblical prophecy:

“Bachu Yogo, but nothing else; bachu Yogo, ale not close. Descend the star in the sight of Jacob, and raise the rod in the sight of Israel, and b'є the princes of Moab, and break all the blues of Seth.

And the book of the prophet Danilo Navit gave information for calculating the hour of the people of the Messiah:

“Also know and be wise: if you see the order about the rebirth of Jerusalem, until Christ the Lord, this day and sixty-two days; And the people turn around, and the streets and walls rise, but in difficult hours.

So that the sorcerers, for example, did not stink of the Jewish faith, they could all agree that for Christ to appear in the light.

The stinks were destroyed before the king Irod the Great. Such a solution is not surprising, even though the Jewish tradition painted the Messiah as a king, to that and the shukati sorcerers started there themselves.

Ale, Irod the Great rozcharuvav mandrіvniki, to that he could not help them with anything.

On the other hand, try the sorcerers, nevertheless, they revealed the little porch of Mary and Josip - the father of Jesus Christ. Dostemenno nevіdomo, scho tse bulo. It is a modern tradition to remember that I spent the night at the stove, as it celebrated the function of the barn. In those days, a lot of people arrived to Bethlehem for the census, so the hotels simply did not run out of space.

Vtіm, Evangelіє vіd Matthew to speak not about the oven, but about dіm:

“I, having reached the house, Nemovlya s of Mary, Yogo’s mother, fell, bowed down to Yoma.”

The worship of the sorcerers often looks like the cob of the Old Testament prophecy:

“Kings of Arabia and Savi to bring gifts; and bow down to Yomu all the kings; all peoples will serve Yom, for Vin will allow the zhemarka, screaming that humiliated... and the souls of the wretched vryatu».

(Ps. 71:10-13)

The Magi sometimes stray from the shepherds

The New Testament has a similar episode. Before the shepherds, the angels tell about the people of Jesus Christ:

“When the angels saw them into heaven, the shepherds said one to one: we go to Bethlehem and wonder what happened there, about which the Lord has told us. I, hurrying, came and knew Mary and Josip, and Nemovlya, who was lying at the manger. After chatting, they spoke about those that were told to them about Nemovlya Sem.

And everyone who felt marveled at what the shepherds told them. And Mary saved all her words, putting them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all those who chuli and bachili, as they were told bullo.

Unbeknownst, skіlki bulo volkhvіv, ale in retelling є imeny 3 of them

The names of the sorcerers often create swindles and are taken from the wrong iconography. In fact, the Bible does not say what the Magi were called. Nazivati ​​їh by name - pіznya tradition, won vinykla in Serednyovіchі and is not based on the Holy Letter. The axis of such names of the venerable Bida Vidatny from the monastery of Saints Peter and Paul is attributed to the mandrіvniks:

• Caspar;
• Melchior;
• Belshazzar.

3 Names of the Magi according to the texts of St. Bid the Most High.

Ale tse zovsim does not mean that there were only three Volohivs. Tsya figure, maybe, is connected with the number of gifts, as they gave the infidels of Christ. Ale, before them, we will turn our backs.

Krіm іmen, Retelling povidomlyaє zovnіshnіst tsikh three people:

1. Kaspar is a youth without a beard.
2. Melchitor is a black-haired Ethiopian.
3. Belshazzar is a bearded old man.

It is possible that these people were right and were the leaders of the great group of mandriving, and maybe they were really mandulating three times. The Bible doesn't give daily clues for trying to win over whether it's a version.

The Magi brought 3 symbolic gifts to Jesus Christ: gold, frankincense and myrrh

Another important moment in our history is the gift of the Magi. Mandrіvniki arrived not with empty hands, but with objects that had a little more symbolic meaning.

It is obvious that these people were seriously preparing for their mission and rushed into it not just as a visit to the initiation for the sake of the satisfaction of the cuckoo, but to themselves - a hidden sensation. The stench knew that, yakі gifts are worthy.

What did the Magi bring as a gift of farewell:

• gold - such a choice is not marvelous, even the sorcerers knew that it was straight up to the royal fall. Tsim expensive metal to pay the tribute to the ruler. Likewise, gold is the material for embellishing sacred relics, which could slander the special camp of the Messiah. To him gold is demonstrated by those that Christ is a king, let it not be in the traditional romanized word;
• frankincense is a resin with a pleasant aroma. Vaughn was making chimalih pennies. Zastosovuvali її in worship, the sense of such a choice is obvious: Christ is the mentor of people and the true High Priest is the priest. Prynaymni sama such yogo was represented by the Magi. The frankincense is blazing on the spiritual nature of the Messiah, this is the link with God;
• myrrh - tse funeral pahoshi. About those, like the share of the Messiah, they knew a lot of people, know from the Holy Letter. Youmu should have made a great sacrifice, die. Traditionally, myrrh was vicorated during embalming. Tse podkreslyuval podyaku for the sacrifice of Christ.

The wise men brought a gift to you, and they wrote, but they didn’t tell Tsar Herod the Great about anything.

Magi laid down the tradition of giving gifts on Christmas and Novy Rik

So the sorcerers laid down the Bagatov tradition of giving gifts for Christmas. Even though far from them, she was drawn to Christians and people of other religions. Spravzhnіy poshtovkh tsієї traditsії dav Mykola the Wonderworker. Vіn mav rich spadshchina and generously disposed of them, if it was recognized that one poor person could not see the daughters of zamіzh through the presence of a dowry.

Mykola the Wonderworker, becoming the prototype of the modern Santa Claus with a bear of gifts.

Todі St. Mykolaj the Pleasant, giving the little bears from the gold to the bіdnyakov. In the past, the image under the influx of literature was transformed by the kind bearded Santa Claus with a bear of gifts.

From that hour, Catholics on Rizdvo, and Orthodox - on Novy Rik, give gifts to relatives. I don’t know how many gifts they brought to Jesus and the stars began this tradition. Ale won caught on everywhere.

On the riddle about the sorcerers, children in Cologne climb into them on the 6th of September and walk to bless the succes

The image of the Magi is less popular among Christians, like the image of Christ, the holy prophets. And all the same podekudi їх especially shanuyut. For example, this is the tradition of Nimechi. On June 6, children go out into the streets in crowns and trains.

The stinks imitate the wise men and queens, they knock at the door to the courts, and the people play for them with joy. Aje tse radisna zvіstka - tomorrow is Rіzdvo!

Children in Cologne are taken in by sorcerers and receive sums for pennies and malt.

Tse even guess Halloween: children sing songs, take away zukerki chi pennies. The only difference is that here they change clothes over the heroes of mass culture, and the sorcerers.

And the “wizards” themselves can bless the rulers.

The tradition is widest in Cologne.

Gifts of the Magi were saved on the river. Athos, near the monastery of St. Paul

About the share of the gift of the volkhvіv rozpovіdє retelling. Mary took care of all their lives, and before her death she went to the Jerusalem Church. There the stench lay for a hundred years, the docks of the relics did not endure at the new place - to Constantinople. This decision was praised by Emperor Arkadiy.

Then the gifts saved six hundred years at Nica, the remains of Constantinople occupied the Latins. Then they turned back to the capital.

In 1453 p. the capital of the Christian world, Byzantium, fell. Todі dari was transferred to Mount Athos, to the monastery of St. Paul.