Ezechiel 16:10
And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shod thee with violet coloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine linen, and clothed thee with fine garments.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et vestivi te discoloribus, et calceavi te janthino, et cinxi te bysso, et indui te subtilibus :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐνέδυσά σε ποικίλα καὶ ὑπέδησά σε ὑάκινθον, καὶ ἔζωσά σε βύσσῳ καὶ περιέβαλόν σε τριχάπτῳ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וָאַלְבִּישֵׁ֣ךְ רִקְמָ֔ה וָאֶנְעֲלֵ֖ךְ תָּ֑חַשׁ וָאֶחְבְּשֵׁ֣ךְ בַּשֵּׁ֔שׁ וַאֲכַסֵּ֖ךְ מֶֽשִׁי
Haydock's commentary
Embroidery. Literally, "various colours." (Haydock)
But this is the import, Psalm xliv. 10.
Violet, or dark blue, appropriated to princes.
Linen, or cotton, Exodus xxv., and Proverbs xxxi. 24. (Calmet)
Fine. Literally, "thin." Hebrew Mesi, (Haydock) "silken." (Jarchi; Pagnin, &c.) Silk was used much later at Rome, (Calmet) and was reprobated as not covering the body sufficiently.
Cois tibi pene videre est
Ut nudam.
(Horace, i. Sat. ii.)
(Seneca, Ben. vii. 9.)
Septuagint trichapto, according to Hesychius, &c., denotes "a silk ribbon for the hair;" (Calmet) a robe as delicate as hair, (St. Jerome) or a transparent veil for the head. (Theodoret)
Such are still worn in the East. Hair is used in the veil opposite to the eyes, that the ladies may see without being seen. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.