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The sacred oil was used for his ordination as fora priest. He was the 'lord's anointed' in a peculiar sense, that in vested his person with a special sanctity. And from him the name of 'the Anointed One' was handed on till it re ceived in the latest days of the Jewish Church its very highest application — in Hebrew or Aramaic, the Messiah; in Greek, the Christ. — Stanley, History of the Jewish Church, Vol. II., p. 15. Anointing was a symbol of endowment with the Divine Spirit(comp. 1 Saml. In connec tion with v. 9 sq., the gift which is the condition of a wise, just and powerful government, — all ability to rule righteously being but an out?ow of divine wisdom, Prov. 8: 15 sq. Anointing made the king's person both sacred and inviolable, 1 Saml. Compared with 2 Sam]. Oehler's Old Testament Theology, p. 369.