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Notes:
(1)
8
, from
, “to throw around,” lit., “that which is thrown
around,” was a wrap or mantle. It is used in 1 Cor. 11:15, of the hair of a woman which is
given to her as a veil; in Heb. 1:12, of the earth and the heavens, which the Lord will roll
up “as a mantle,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “vesture.” The other word in that verse rendered
“garment,”
RV
, is
.¶
(2)
, $
, is “a putting on (of apparel),” 1 Pet. 3:3. Cf. No. 5.¶
(3)
,
. See
APPAREL
, No. 1.
(4) The
$
was a short “cloak” or robe, worn over the
(No. 3), by
emperors, kings, magistrates, military officers, etc. It is used of the scarlet robe with
which Christ was arrayed in mockery by the soldiers in Pilate’s Judgment Hall, Matt.
27:28, 31.
What was known as purple was a somewhat indefinite color. There is nothing
contradictory about its being described by Mark and John as “purple,” though Matthew
speaks of it as “scarlet.” The soldiers put it on the Lord in mockery of His Kingship.¶
(5) The
was another sort of outer garment, reaching to the feet (from
$
,
“the foot,” and
, “to fasten”). It was one of the garments of the high priests, a robe
(Hebrew,
), mentioned after the ephod in Exod. 28:4, etc. It is used in Ezek.
9:2, where instead of “linen” the Sept. reads “a long robe”; and in Zech. 3:4, “clothe ye
him with a long robe”; in the NT in Rev. 1:13, of the long garment in which the Lord is
seen in vision amongst the seven golden lampstands. There,
is described as “a
garment down to the feet,” indicative of His High Priestly character and acts.¶
(6) For
, see
APPAREL
, No. 4.
CLOUD
1.
(
!
, 3509) denotes “a cloudy, shapeless mass covering the heavens.”
Hence, metaphorically, of “a dense multitude, a throng,” Heb. 12:1.¶
2.
(
!
, 3507), “a definitely shaped cloud, or masses of clouds possessing
definite form,” is used, besides the physical element, (a) of the “cloud” on the mount of
transfiguration, Matt. 17:5; (b) of the “cloud” which covered Israel in the Red Sea, 1 Cor.
10:1-2; (c), of “clouds” seen in the Apocalyptic visions, Rev. 1:7; 10:1; 11:12; 14:14-16;
(d) metaphorically in 2 Pet. 2:17, of the evil workers there mentioned; but
RV
, “and
mists” (
), according to the most authentic mss.
In 1 Thess. 4:17, the “clouds” referred to in connection with the rapture of the saints
are probably the natural ones, as also in the case of those in connection with Christ’s
second advent to the earth. See Matt. 24:30; 26:64, and parallel passages. So at the
Ascension, Acts 1:9.
CLOVEN
(
$&
, 1266), “to part asunder” ( , “asunder,”
, “a part”), is
translated “cloven” in the
KJV
of Acts 2:3,
RV
, “parting asunder.” See
DIVIDE
,
PART
.
CLUSTER