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in addition of being a high valued commodity back then, and representing the wealth of the land, oil was used in the anointing ceremony of a king. the Hebrew term mashiah /Messiah actually mean "one who was rubbed with oil" referring to an anointed king. But the representation itself was to represent the holy ghost as in the parable of the ten virgins

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