Exodus 30:23 (WEB)
“Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
Catechism · 1
“There were several anointed ones of the Lord in the Old Covenant, pre-eminently King David.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ex 30:22-32; 1 Sam 16:13.
Fathers and councils · 2
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…Mother was sleeping, the Demiurge of himself gave instructions as to its weight; and on this account it is out of harmony with their Pleroma, consisting, as it did, of five hundred shekels of myrrh, five hundred of cassia, two hundred and fifty of cinnamon, two hundred and fifty of calamus, and oil in addition,…” — editor's note: Ex. xxx. 23, etc.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“He received not the High-Priesthood from bodily succession, nor was He anointed with oil prepared by man, but before all ages by the Father; and He so far excels the others as with an oath He is made Priest: For they are priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him that said, The Lord sware, and will not repent.” — editor's note: σκευαστῷ, Ex. xxx. 22–25: “a perfume compounded (μυρεψικόν ) after the art of the perfumer” (R.V.).
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