When He laid aside His perfumed, royal clothing

“All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.” (Psalm 45:8) One of the most beautiful of the Christmas hymns (though rarely sung

at Christmas) is “Out of the Ivory Palaces,” telling how the King of heaven left His heavenly home and laid aside His perfumed, royal clothing to enter a world of woe. 

That this 45th Psalm is symbolic in part is obvious, but that it refers to Christ is also..." 

HenryMorris