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O. Henry's 1905 short story The Gift of the Magi tells of an impoverished couple named Jim and Della Dillingham Young sacrificing their prized possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts. Della sells her long brown hair to buy a platinum fob chain to go with Jim's pocket watch, only to learn that he had sold it to buy ornamental combs for her ...
December 10, 1905 (newspaper); April 10, 1906 (book) [1] "The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) first published in ...
Matthew 2:11 is the eleventh verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.The magi, dispatched by King Herod, have found the small child (not infant) Jesus and in this verse present him with gifts in an event known as the Visit of the Wise Men.
Caspar is behind the kneeling Melchior in The Magi visiting child Jesus, by Dieric Bouts. Matthew wrote that the Magi brought three gifts – gold, frankincense and myrrh. These gifts apparently have deeper significance, the gold signifying the regal status of Jesus, the frankincense his divinity, and the myrrh his human nature.
Magi (PLUR), [a] or magus (SING), [b] is the term for priests in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions. The earliest known use of the word magi is in the trilingual inscription written by Darius the Great, known as the Behistun Inscription.
The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings or Visitation of the Wise Men is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him.
Balthazar gave the gift of myrrh, which symbolised the future death of a king, as myrrh was an expensive item at the time. [8] [9] Following his return to his own country, avoiding King Herod, it is purported that Balthazar celebrated Christmas with the other members of the Magi in Armenia in 54 AD but later died on 6 January 55 AD, aged 112 ...
The work is largely an expansion of the story of the Adoration of the Magi found in the Gospel of Matthew.Modern scholars have divided the work into 32 short chapters: a short 2-chapter prologue; a first-person plural account of the Magi's journey in chapters 3–27; and an epilogue in chapters 28–32 where Judas Thomas visits Shir afterward as part of his missionary work to the East.