Праздник Богоявления первонач. связывался с крещением Христа в
Иордане, когда на Него сошёл Святой Дух и Бог-Отец свидетельствовал о Сыне (см.
Мф 3:13–17).
Однако в зап. церквах (в отличие от вост.) праздник связывается теперь с
поклонением волхвов: они – первые язычники, которым явился Господь. 6 янв.
(в нек‑рых странах – первое воскресенье января).
* А что собственно
слово обозначает само по себе?
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Epiphany — a. богоявление [пояснить, см. примеры ниже]
[дать три отсылки на Библию]
In Hellenistic times an ~ (from the Greek epiphania, "manifestation"),
or appearance of divine power in a person or event, was a common religious
concept. [EB] — [перевод?]
l b.
праздник {день} Богоявления, Богоявление, прав.
Крещение (Господне), 6 января (р Twelfth Day, Three Kings' Day, прав. Theophany, прав. Baptism of Our Lord)
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Epiphany (Twelfth Day) --
January 6th. "Epiphany" is from a Greek word which means "to
manifest, to show". The word is used of the Christian festival which
commemorates the showing of the Christ child to the Gentiles -- the Magi. The
name Theophania "manifestation of God", was once bestowed on girls
who were born on this day.D
Three Kings' Day -- January 6th. Another name
for the Epiphany, or Twelfth Day. On this day the infant Christ was shown to
the Magi, the three "wise men" or "kings" from the East.
The church of the angels is the
upper church; the earthly church joins with them in the "cherubic
hymn", the Trisagion ("Holy, Holy, Holy"), at the epiphany of
the Lord and the angelic choirs surrounding him in the Eucharist EB
Epiphany. In Hellenistic times an epiphany
(from the Greek epiphania,
"manifestation"), or appearance of divine power in a person or event,
was a common religious concept. The New Testament uses the word to denote the
final appearing of Christ at the end of time; but in 2 Timothy 1:10 it refers
to his coming as Saviour on earth. In this latter sense, a festival of Christ's
epiphany is first attested among heretical Gnostic Christians (those who
believed that mankind was saved by secret knowledge, not faith, and that matter
was evil and the spiritual world good) in Egypt in the late 2nd cent. (Clement
of Alexandria), on January 6, when he was manifested as Son of God at his baptism.
It commemorated three
"manifestation"; the birth, the baptism, and the first miracle of the
Lord at Cana (John 2:1 ff.). In the latter half of the century Eastern and
Western churches adopted each other's incarnation festival, thus establishing
the 12-day celebration from Christmas to Epiphany. The particular emphasis in
the Eastern feast upon the baptism of Christ led to special liturgical
ceremonies of the blessing of waters and the ministration of baptism at this
time. In the West, where Christmas was the primary festival, the Epiphany was
associated particularly with the Adoration of the Magi to the infant Jesus
(Matthew 2:1—12), as anticipation of the universal redemption of Christ in his
"Manifestation to Gentiles". [EB]
Twelfth Night -- the evening
before the Twelfth day (Epiphany) after Christmas, formerly kept as time of
merry-making. ODCC
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