salome 音标拼音: [səl'omi]
n . 希律王之女
希律王之女
Salome n 1 :
woman whose dancing beguiled Herod into giving her the head of John the Baptist Salome perfect . (
1 .)
The wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John (
Mat .
27 :
56 ),
and probably the sister of Mary ,
the mother of our Lord (
John 19 :
25 ).
She sought for her sons places of honour in Christ '
s kingdom (
Matt .
20 :
20 ,
21 ;
comp .
19 :
28 ).
She witnessed the crucifixion (
Mark 15 :
40 ),
and was present with the other women at the sepulchre (
Matt .
27 :
56 ).
(
2 .) "
The daughter of Herodias ,"
not named in the New Testament .
On the occasion of the birthday festival held by Herod Antipas ,
who had married her mother Herodias ,
in the fortress of Machaerus ,
she "
came in and danced ,
and pleased Herod " (
Mark 6 :
14 -
29 ).
John the Baptist ,
at that time a prisoner in the dungeons underneath the castle ,
was at her request beheaded by order of Herod ,
and his head given to the damsel in a charger , "
and the damsel gave it to her mother ,"
whose revengeful spirit was thus gratified . "
A luxurious feast of the period " (
says Farrar ,
Life of Christ ) "
was not regarded as complete unless it closed with some gross pantomimic representation ;
and doubtless Herod had adopted the evil fashion of his day .
But he had not anticipated for his guests the rare luxury of seeing a princess ,
his own niece ,
a grand -
daughter of Herod the Great and of Mariamne ,
a descendant ,
therefore ,
of Simon the high priest and the great line of Maccabean princes ,
a princess who afterwards became the wife of a tetrarch [
Philip ,
tetrarch of Trachonitis ]
and the mother of a king ,
honouring them by degrading herself into a scenic dancer ."
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