Gaspar

Japanese: Gaspar
Gaspar

…However, the third-century Alexandrian theologian Origen, based on the three gifts mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew, pointed out that there were three wise men, and so the three-person theory became the norm in Christian iconography from ancient times. The Latin names of the three wise men, Gaspar (or Caspar), Balthazar (Balthasar), and Melchior, are said to date back to the sixth-century Latin Excerpt from the Gentiles (Excerpta latina barbari), and these names are written above the heads of the three wise men in a mosaic from the same century in the Church of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna. Since the early Middle Ages, Gaspar has been depicted as an old man, Balthasar as a middle-aged man, and Melchior as a young man, with a distinction made between their ages. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Gaspar" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…しかし,すでに3世紀のアレクサンドリアの神学者オリゲネスが,《マタイによる福音書》の語る三つの贈物を根拠に,博士の数を3人と指摘したため,古くからキリスト教の図像表現では3人説が慣習化した。三博士の名まえがラテン語でガスパルGaspar(またはカスパルCaspar),バルタザルBalthazar(Balthasar),メルキオルMelchiorとされたのは6世紀の《ラテン語による異邦人抜粋Excerpta latina barbari》にさかのぼるといわれ,同世紀のラベンナのサンタポリナーレ・ヌオボ教会のモザイクには三博士の頭上にこれらの名まえが明記されている。中世初期以来,ガスパルは老年,バルタザルは中年,メルキオルは青年と,年齢を区別して表された。…

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