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Topic:
Crown
Of Thorns
From Easton's Bible Dictionary…
With respect to the term "crown of thorns…"
Our Lord was crowned with a, in mockery by the Romans (Matt. 27:29).
The object of Pilate's guard in doing this was probably to insult, and
not specially to inflict pain. There is nothing to show that the shrub
thus used was, as has been supposed, the spina Christi, which could have
been easily woven into a wreath. It was probably the thorny nabk, which
grew abundantly round about Jerusalem, and whose flexible, pliant, and
round branches could easily be platted into the form of a crown.
From Smith's Bible Dictionary…
(Matthew 27:29) Our Lord was crowned with thorns in mockery by the
Roman soldiers. Obviously some small flexile thorny shrub is meant
perhaps Capparis spinosa. "Hasselquist, a Swedish naturalist,
supposes a very common plant naba or nubka of the Arabs, with many small
and sharp sines; soft, round and pliant branches; leaves much resembling
ivy, of a very deep green, as if in designed mockery of a victor's
wreath."--Alford.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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