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概要
- Smelling incense when none is burning is phantosmia, an olfactory hallucination. Causes include sinus inflammation, infection, some medications, migraine aura and some seizures.
- A new, persistent or recurring phantom smell is worth a doctor’s attention, particularly with headaches, confusion, altered awareness or changes to taste.
- Incense in Scripture means prayer: Psalm 141:2 and Revelation 5:8, where the golden bowls of incense are the prayers of God’s people. Smoke rises and reaches where the person cannot go.
- 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 is the one place smell carries a message, and even there the aroma is what Christians are, not a sign sent to them.
- The “odour of sanctity” is a medieval devotional tradition, not a biblical teaching. A prompt is not a message, and prayer prompted by something ordinary is still prayer.
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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Psalm 141:2; Leviticus 19:26; 2 Corinthians 2:15-16; Revelation 5:8; 8:3-4; 1 Thessalonians 5:17). The description of phantosmia, its common causes and its association with migraine aura and some seizures follows standard clinical references; this article is not medical advice. The odour of sanctity is described as a devotional tradition, which is what it is.
