Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh
Tenth-century abbot Elfric saw the gifts of the Magi to Christ as symbolic, with gold for a king, frankincense for a God, and myrrh for mortal man. Some people, he said, readily offer him one or two of these gifts, but too many of us withhold one, not recognising him as God perhaps, or as King, or as incarnate.
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