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Headword:
Manna
Adler number: mu,129
Translated headword: manna
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An offering, a drink-offering.[1]
Also [meaning] the nourishment falling from above. It signifies something like this: that which was covered only on the evening of the sabbath. So Christ, the sweetness of life, was covered in preparation for his burial.[2]
Greek Original:Manna: thusia, spondê. kai hê anôthen piptousa trophê. sêmainei de ti touto: ho hesperai tou sabbatou monon ekrupteto. kai Christos, ho glukasmos tês zôês, têi paraskeuêi tôi taphôi kaluptetai.
Notes:
See also
mu 130.
[1] Similarly elsewhere: see the references at
Photius,
Lexicon mu85 Theodoridis, where the headword is printed as
manaa (from the
Septuagint).
[2] (Echoing the Jewish day of Preparation, occuring before the Passover sabbath: LSJ s.v. A.III, at web address 1.) This material has parallels in Theodoret's
Commentary on Exodus 29.30 (PG 80.257c, 260a), and see also
Etymologicum Magnum 574.90.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: Christianity; definition; food; imagery; religion
Translated by: Kyle Heath on 17 November 2005@20:33:31.
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