Incense on the altar
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
altar · grains of incense · the altar of incense
spoken of as
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Stromata
Temple altar positioned between the outer court and the inner sanctuary, read as symbolizing the earth's central position.
And between the covering and the veil, where the priests were permitted to enter, lay the altar of incense, a symbol of the earth set in the middle of this world, from which come up the exhalations.
Meditations
Grains of incense burned on an altar, used as an image for the indifference of timing in death.
Many grains of incense fall on the same altar;