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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904) · Public Domain

Cloth, clothing (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

See Dress. CLOTHED UPON in 2 Co 5= * has been chosen to express the force of the {iri in iwcvbiofiai (only here in NT), to put on something in addition to what is already on. In Jn 21' Peter ' girt his coat (iirtvovTqi) about him,' without which he was •naked,' that is, had on only the light under- garment, perhaps only the loin cloth. See Dress. J. Hastings.

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Cloth; Clothing — ISBE (1915) article

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