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Amandina
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Christmas Vocabulary
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Dear Teachers,
Do we say the Three Wise Men or the Three Holy Kings? And if both are used, which one is more common?
Thank you for your help!
Amandina
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25 Nov 2009
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sabizach
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Three Wise Men is more common. |
25 Nov 2009
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Amandina
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Thank you for your answer.
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25 Nov 2009
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Spagman63
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We don �t know that they were holy just that they were wise.
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25 Nov 2009
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mariannina
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Amandina, I used to teach in a Catholic school and the nuns said "The wise men", I �ve never heard that they were "holy".
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25 Nov 2009
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serene
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I think they are called the Three Kings or the Three Wise Men or the Magi. |
25 Nov 2009
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pauguzman
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Well, in Spanish we say " los tres reyes magos", which means that they were kings and magicians, nothing about holy or wise!!!!! |
25 Nov 2009
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RabbitWho
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That �s so strange.. each language has a completely different idea about who these men were and what they were like.
Is there any language that says they were rabbits? Because that would be cool... |
25 Nov 2009
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Amandina
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I don �t think so. lol
But I guess I �ll call them the three wise men from now on. Seems to be the safest bet. Thanks to you all.
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25 Nov 2009
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almaz
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In Scotland, they �ve always been The Three Wise Men (at least in the Protestant version) although I recall reading about them actually being Zoroastrian priests. Can anyone flesh this out? |
25 Nov 2009
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Jayho
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Downunder we generally refer to them as the Three Wise Men however the song calls them The Three Kings: We Three Kings of Orient Are. |
25 Nov 2009
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