Mark 16:1
Douay-Rheims
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.
Theophylact of Ohrid
For they do not understand the greatness and dignity of the wisdom of Christ. But they came according to the custom of the Jews to anoint the body of Christ, that it might remain sweet-smelling, and might not burst forth into moisture, for spices have the property of drying up, and absorb the moisture of the body, so that they keep the body from corruption.
Source details
1107 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 16:1-8
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.