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clothes. However, when it modifies [handwritten: ναός], temple, and more specifically [handwritten: θῦμας] and [handwritten: τεμένος][handwritten: 357], it must connote not not only sweetly smelling but filled with or giving forth an odor connected with worship, probably that from the burning of incense. Euripides speaks of an altar no longer bright with fire as unaccompanied by [handwritten: καπνὸ θυμιάς]
Handwritten: οὐδ' ἔτι πῦρ ἐπιβώμιον ἐν Τροί-
Handwritten: α θεοῖσιν καπνὸ λέλαμ-
Handwritten: πεν θυμιάς
Empedocles speaks of
Handwritten: θυμίαμα τ' ἀκρήτου θυσίαις λιβάνου τε θυμίαμα
Now in the baptistery in the Lateran at Rome, on the days of the Pascha, balsam was burned. In the service of baptism as preserved in both manuscripts of Grotto Ferrata, after the prayer [handwritten: Δέσποτα Κύριε] and before that for peace from above, the priest takes the censor and fills the room with incense. In as much as Gregory Nazianus speaks of the bridal chamber of Christ as [handwritten: θυμιατήριον], there can be little doubt that a similar interpretation is to be applied to the [handwritten: θυμίαμα] of our inscription. Moreover, while [handwritten: θυμίαμα] in our inscription when used of [handwritten: θάλαμον] only as a place of baptism meant filled with the fragrance as a bath and/or a baptistery, it connoted sweetly smelling. A bad odor was associated with … continues
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