Matthew 2:11
Footnote:
8b | "Merry Christmas" The magicians and traders are in the (Treasure) House, buying and selling, trafficking people, symbolized in the gold, frankincense, and myrhh. "Don't treasure up for yourselves treasure-storehouses on the Earth..." (Matt. 6:19 RBT) Strong's #G2344, θησαυρός (thēsaurós): Originally meaning a "strong-room" or "magazine" (Hdt. 2.150; SIG 419.17 [Delphi, 3rd century BCE]; LXX Deut. 32:34), the term also denoted a "store" or "treasure" (Ar. Av. 599). It was especially used for the treasuries constructed at Delphi by various Greek city-states (e.g., SIG 8 [6th century BCE]; Hdt. 1.14; Xen. Anab. 5.3.5; Strabo 4.1.13) and metaphorically applied to natural resources, such as the silver mines at Laureion (θησαυρός χθονός, Aesch. Pers. 238 [troch.]). It also referred to bank vaults in later periods (e.g., PLips. 62ii 14 [4th century CE]).
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