Incense, Part 1
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The History of Incense
The story of the wise men bringing gifts at the birth of Jesus appears only in the gospel of Matthew. The traditional interpretation that there were three of them is probably derived from the fact that it does say they brought three gifts. Frank and sense and myrrh are both types of incense, resins or chunks of hardened gum or sap from two different types of related trees.
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