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The more important, in any case, theological symbolism of oil in the Old Testament theology is connected with the anointment of persons that played a particular role in the divine economy, that is to say priests, archpriests and prophets.
The various uses of oil and the theological perceptions that are located in the Old Testament with regard to the oil survive in the New Testament, enriched however with vigorous christ-centred content. Here, the therapeutic dimension of oil is connected with the intellectual force of evangelic truth. The students of Christ using chrisms of oil to turn away the impure spirits and cure the patients. Also, aromatic oil is used for ornamental and hygiene reasons: or in individual level, or as sample of social compliment or also in the care of deads.
According to the conventional categorisation of sacraments, the oil is used in three of them: in the baptism, in the chrismation and in Extreme unction.
In the baptism, the priest after he blesses water,he aneles it with oil. Then, he marks cruciately with unction the body of the baptized. The particular use of oil presupposes also its therapeutical attributes: catechized is imported in the "inn of" Church, so that he recovers from the wounds and the bruises of sin. Also, this oil invokes the divine mercy, and for this reason is also named "oil of jubilation": it is the oil that it causes the internal thrill of joy in the person that returns in the God.
Remaining in the same sacrament,we can see the effect of pre-christian use of oil in the christian theology. As the athletes of antiquity spread with oil, thus and the neophyte spread with oil so that he faces the difficulties lifelong of his intellectua fight. The inunction of all catechized's body with oil reveals also his complete rebirth and his integration in the body of Church.
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