Incense, aroma, and fragrance imagery uses smoke, perfume, sweet savour, and odour to describe prayer, acceptable worship, pleasing sacrifice, costly devotion, or corrupted worship.
Incense, aroma, and fragrance imagery uses smoke, perfume, sweet savour, and odour to describe prayer, acceptable worship, pleasing sacrifice, costly devotion, or corrupted worship.
A worship-and-acceptance motif in which fragrance signifies ascent before God, priestly mediation, pleasing sacrifice, moral influence, costly love, or the exposure of false worship when the aroma is unacceptable.
These examples show how Incense, Aroma, and Fragrance Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning
Regular incense pictures ordered priestly worship before the LORD.
the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat
Incense accompanies atoning access and shields the priestly approach.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense
Prayer is pictured as incense rising acceptably before God.
incense is an abomination unto me
Incense imagery is reversed when ritual worship is joined to rebellion.
I will accept you with your sweet savour
The sweet savour depicts restored acceptance after judgment and gathering.
the house was filled with the odour of the ointment
The fragrance of Mary’s ointment pictures costly devotion to Christ.
maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge
Aroma imagery describes the gospel’s spreading witness through God’s servants.
to the other the savour of life unto life
The same gospel aroma has opposite effects according to response.
an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour
Christ’s self-giving love is presented as the pleasing sacrifice.
golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints
Incense imagery explicitly represents the prayers of the saints before God.
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