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D119. COLOR or CLOTH8. 133 olear, that Alexander Dund sillis in Persia, and it is more than prob- lo that the Median ress Whicli, sind was adopted by the e stans unde Cyrus, a silli. Sil Wa no introduce among thera tions o Europe, tili a late period. 119. COLOR O CLOTHS. Git Was esteeme the mos appropriate color sor cotton cloth, an purpi so the thers. O festival day the rich and powersu robe themselves in hii cotton, hic Was consideredine mos splendid ress It was denominate in the earlier Hebre by the synonymous Word id and and after the captivit by another Synonyme, Viet ' a the Gree βυσσος The fullers in I, , ad discovere the ari, a Singular ne, it is triae, fcommunicatin a very splendi White o eloth by the es of eskali an urine. ence, est their liops hould communicate a selid-nes to the atmosphere, here it might be of injury the livedout of the i , Isa. 7 3. Cotton loth colore purple a denominate in Hebre 'iu ' and Tan' , an in Chaldaic R. It was colored by the blood taen rom a vei in the throat o a

certain hell-fish. The color a Ver highly esteemed seemed be a medium ue etWeen roW an pure red, and was erybright it was essentiali the fame illi the celebrate Tyrian pu ple. ings and princes ere lothe with this purple Luke 16 19. Rev. 18 12. The scarlet color so called, firs mentione in Gen. 38 28, an occurrin frequently afterWard8, a Very uel admired. It was a different color rom the hell-fisi purple, and was extracted Do the insecta or heir gg8, ound n a species of ah and thene in Hebre it is calledis, , , hicli means a Wor o in- seel. The cotton loth a dippe into his color twide hende

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ach color as sed for common ear, and particulari On Oec storis of mourning.

Par*-colore cloths, 'Un 'χ, ereaighly esteemed Gen. 37 3, 23. 2 Sam. 13 18. A far ad as the time o Moses e find that elotiis ere em-broidered, ometimes illi the colore thread of cotton and linen, and ometimes illi thread of gold. When the wor Was embroi-deredis both sides the Hebrem es sor fabries of thalain appears in the dual form Vig. ' et v. Some of the passages in relation OembrOiderer an embroide inre a sollows, Exod. 25 36. 35 35. Judg. 5 30. s. 45 9. Egeh. 16 10. What the natur of that arment as, hieli is interdicte toth Hebrews in Lev. 19 19, an Deut 22 11 is uncertain. It is sal to e a mixe garment of oo an linen, ut that does notdecide the oint. Josephus SVS, an opinion prevalle in his time, that the arment in question ere embroidere ones, hieli be- longed to the priesis, but the fac is the a Was universal, and imterdicte them to the r esis, as et a to allithers. Perhaps thewarp as made of Ool and the oos o linen a common mode os manufacturing in tho East even to this V, accordin to the testimon O Aryda The arments may have been interdicte to the

This a the mos simple, and as e ma conjecture Domitiat circumstance, the mos ancient arment. It is a common a

tiele of res in the ast to this day, and is callo in Arabic

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D121. . THE MIRDLΕ. 135tim it Was extende down to the ankles Moses in Exod. 28 42, command the riest to ea under arments of this description, o account of thei conveniene in persorming the sacrifices. Hene it a b inferred that the were not Sed by the eopte generalty Whicli is ound o b the state of the case at this da in v rious countries of the East. I Strabo in page 734 means o say, that the Perstans ore three patrs of them, he certainly speak of a recent period in thei history. Mention is ad O an uppe patro this arment in Dan. 3 21, calle in Hebre bo in Persian halvar, in Syria μ νε in Arabieci . - The orientals,

whether ela in the arment in question o Dot, hei the findit necessar to emit urine, ee an Obscure place an in a ittingposture diseharge themselves pon the arth; illi the exceptio that the meanest an loges of the populae defit the alis. Hene the peculiar, proVerbia expressions, hicli ceu in 1 Sam. 25 22, 34, etc. are to e considered, a denotin the ver loWest clas of people. The tunie, Whieli ut sirst ni eouere the ody, Was extende after ard up round the nech, as supplied illistior fleeves, and Ventu alty illi long ones, covering the holearm. Attars it se clos to theiody but was asterWard made IOOSeandio ing. The Babylonians, Egyptians, an Perstans ere cladmith another tunio Xternali to the ne described, and commonlymore preelous, hieli e learn as Orn also by the Jews, Mati. 10:

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23 53. λαμυς is the nam os a robe, common among the GreekS, Whiel extende down to the nees, and was astenedi ver thebreaSt, ut thera μυς κοκκίνη, hicli is mentione Mati. 27 28, an Mar 15 17, calle in common speech π0ρφυο O the Ur ple, as a re robe of the Roma milita , early of the fame

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Servants. In Some instanees here the guesis ore ver distinguish-

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The beata was considerei a great ornament among the HebreWs, ascit is to this day, amora Oriental nations. O ne as allowed to

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the ea by a fillet, as is no customar among the servant in the East, an as may be See o the ruin o Persepolis. Su Sequently a plece of loth as Worii pon the ead Whicli as terward converte into mitres of different sorms. There eretwo ind of mitres among the ancients the ne mentione in

Esther 8 15. o sine linen purpi in color, an enriche withgold the ther resemble a trian e in o , ein potnte atthe topothough no HWays made in the Same V it is denominate in Dan. 3 21, ,2 2 an in the Gree κυρβασις an κυρβασια. Josephus Spealis of a plece of loth, hiet was olledaround the head exterior to the mitre. Antiq. h. III. h. 7. I. and 7 ut of this artici of head-dres it is no elear, that there is any

expres mentio made in Scripture. e muS Suppose, heres ore, it was introduce at a late period certaini aster the captivi . The Hebre wor et Og was applied in the mitres in commonus wor by both sexes the word Uz to the mitres of priesis,

whicli ere os greater eight Exod. 28 40. 29 9. 39 28. Themitre of the his priust, called retrae: was distinguished rom thato the riestat a plate of gold bound in ron oscit. The mitres

Woria by rinees and illustrious meri, ere the sanie illi hos of

the priosis and the highii tests, Exod. 28 4 37. 29 6 39 31. Lev.

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D1 27. OF THE VEIL. 141 mea a diadem, an no a mitre. Olli me and women, ascis nowcommon in the ast remesne With thei head covere both at prayers and in the temple. 127. O THE VEIL. The differendo etween the res of the me and the omen was mali. It consiste elites in the snenes of the materiai and in the tength of the arment. The dres of the uir in the two

sexes a disserent, a ut ready observed, and another mar of distinctio Was that the omen ore a veil. his distinctio ofMess, mali as it Was, a the round of the command prohibitin the assumptio by one Se of the ress Whicli as appropriat to the ther, Deut 22 5. At semales, Xceptin maid- servant an other in arao condition in isse, ore the veli, Ordi the ever lay it aside, excepi in the presence of servant and thos relations, it Whom nuptials were interdicted Lev xviii.

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behin and besore. It was o large, that in many countries the matrons ho ore it dispense With an other. VI. ' 'nes a thin auge-like fabric, denominate in the Enν liis version a caul, J,hich was sed as a Veii comp. the correspond- in Arabic. The phras oes' di zz Gen. 20 I 6 probabi does no mea a Veii perhaps the reading, a Michaelis conjeetures, should e di Uz that is, the fine or punishment of the yes,

vig. of Abimelech. What sortis a veit it is, calle in tho Gree of the e Testamen ἐξουσία - ῆς κεφαλῆς, is notanOWn 1 Cor. 11 10.

lonians, must necessarii have carried ne meret sor ornament,

an no sor an positive benesit, Exod. 12 11 Gen. 38 18, 25. The Hebrews ore uiso, in imitation of the Babylonians, a seia Or ignet, m, hichisa suspende fro the nec ove thobreast Gon 38 18. Cant. 8 6. Hag. 2 23. Sometimes mei ely