the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Isaiah 3:23
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hand mirrors, undergarments, turbans, and shawls.
hand mirrors, undergarments, turbans and veils.
And the glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoodes, and the lawnes.
the mirrors, and the fine linen bodices, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.
and the mirrors; The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.
the mirrors and the fine linen; and the turbans and the veils.
the mirrors, linen dresses, turbans, and long shawls.
the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.
The glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoods, and the vailes.
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
glasses and smockes, bonettes and taches.
hand mirrors, [fine linen] undergarments, headbands, and veils [covering the entire body].
the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.
The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
garments, vests, head coverings, and gowns.
gauze scarves, linen underclothes, turbans and capes.
And the glasses and the fine linen, and the hoodes, and the launes.
The long outer garments, the purple robes, the scarlet robes, the wardrobe of all their adornments.
the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.
and the gauze robes, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the mantles.
mirrors, fine linen garments, head ornaments, and shawls.
hand mirrors, underclothes, head-coverings, and face-coverings.
and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders, and the garments with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses, and those made of fine linen, and the purple ones, and the scarlet ones, and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches.
the hand mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.
and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.
the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
and the mirrors and the linen wraps, and the tiaras and the cloaks.
And lookingglasses, and lawns, and headbands, and fine veils.
and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps.
the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
papyrus garments, undergarments, headbands, and veils.
their mirrors, linen dresses, turbans, and long shawls.
their revealing garments, their linen handkerchiefs, and the scarves and long veils they wear on their heads.
garments, linen clothes, turbans, and veils.
and myrouris, and smal lynun clothis aboute the schuldris, and kercheues, and roketis.
the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
Of the mirrors, and of the linen garments, And of the hoods, and of the vails,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
glasses: Exodus 38:8
fine linen: Genesis 41:42, 1 Chronicles 15:27, Ezekiel 16:10, Luke 16:19, Revelation 19:8, Revelation 19:14
veils: Genesis 24:65, Ruth 3:15, Song of Solomon 5:7
Cross-References
And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth: and the man was not [there] to till the ground;
in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
from now on when you till the ground, it shall not yield its strength to you; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.
And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
And the advantage of a land is for everyone. There is a king to [protect] the cultivated field.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The glasses,.... Looking glasses, by which they dressed themselves, see Exodus 38:8 and so Kimchi explains the word; but elsewhere e he says it signifies thin garments, so called because the flesh is seen through them, being so exceeding thin; which sense is favoured by the Septuagint version, which renders it by τα διαφανη
λακωνικα, garments which the Lacedemonians wore, which were so thin and transparent, that the naked body might be seen through them:
and the fine linen; of which several of their garments and ornaments were made, and particularly their veils, with which they veiled themselves, as Jarchi observes:
and the hoods; the word is used for a diadem and mitre,
Isaiah 62:3 the Targum renders it "crowns"; and such the Jewish women wore, Isaiah 62:3- : and particularly newly married women f:
and the veils; so the word is rendered in Song of Solomon 5:7 with which women covered their heads, either through modesty, or as a token of subjection to their husbands, see Genesis 24:65 but, according to the Targum and Kimchi, these were thin garments which women wore in summertime; Jarchi says they are the same which the French call "fermelan", and are of gold, which they put about the cloak the woman is covered with; perhaps they were a sort of umbrellas, to keep off the heat of the sun.
e Ib. (In Sepher Shorash.) rad. גלה. f Misn. Sota, c. 9. sect. 14.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The glasses - There is a great variety of opinion about the expression used here. That ancient Jews had “looking-glasses,” or mirrors, is manifest from the account in Exodus 38:8. These “mirrors” were made of polished plates of brass. The Vulgate and Chaldee understand this of “mirrors.” The Septuagint understands by it a “thin, transparent covering like gauze,” perhaps like silk. The word is derived from the verb “to reveal, to make apparent,” etc., and applies either to mirrors or to a splendid shining garment. It is probable that their excessive vanity was evinced by carrying small mirrors in their hands - that they might examine and adjust their dress as might be necessary. This is now done by females of Eastern nations. Shaw informs us that, ‘In the Levant, looking-glasses are a part of female dress. The Moorish women in Barabary are so fond of their ornaments, and particularly of their looking-glasses, which they hang upon their breasts, that they will not lay them aside, even when, after the drudgery of the day, they are obliged to go two or three miles with a pitcher or a goat-skin to fetch water.’ - “Burder.” In Egypt, the mirror was made of mixed metal, chiefly of copper, and this metal was so highly polished, that in some of the mirrors discovered at Thebes, the luster has been partially restored, though they have been buried in the earth for many centuries. The mirror was nearly round, inserted in a handle of wood, stone, or metal, whose form varied according to the taste of the owner. The picture in the book will give you an idea of the ancient form of the mirror, and will show that they might be easily carried abroad as an ornament in public; compare Wilkinson’s “Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,” vol. iii., pp. 384-386.
And the fine linen - Anciently, the most delicate and fine garments were made from linen which was obtained chiefly from Egypt; see the note at Luke 16:19.
And the hoods - Or, “turbans.”
And the veils - This does not differ probably from the veils worn now, except that those worn by Eastern females are “large,” and made so as to cover the head and the shoulders, so that they may be drawn closely round the body, and effectually conceal the person; compare Genesis 24:65.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 3:23. The glasses — The conjunction ו vau, and - AND the glasses, is added here by forty-three of Kennicott's and thirty-four of De Rossi's MSS., and one of my own, ancient, as well as by many editions.
And the veils. - "The transparent garments."] Τα διαφανη Λακωνικα, Sept. A kind of silken dress, transparent, like gauze; worn only by the most elegant women, and such as dressed themselves elegantius quam necesse esset probis, "more elegantly than modest women should." Such garments are worn to the present day; garments that not only show the shape of every part of the body, but the very colour of the skin. This is evidently the case in some scores of drawings of Asiatic females now before me. This sort of garments was afterwards in use among the Greeks. Prodicus, in his celebrated fable (Xenoph. Memorab. Socr. lib. ii.) exhibits the personage of Sloth in this dress: Εσθητα δε, εξ ἡς αν μαλιστα ὡρα διαλαμποι: -
"Her robe betray'd
Through the clear texture every tender limb,
Height'ning the charms it only seem'd to shade;
And as it flow'd adown so loose and thin,
Her stature show'd more tall, more snowy white her skin."
They were called multitia and coa (scil, vestimenta) by the Romans, from their being invented, or rather introduced into Greece, by one Pamphila of the island of Cos. This, like other Grecian fashions, was received at Rome, when luxury began to prevail under the emperors. It was sometimes worn even by the men, but looked upon as a mark of extreme effeminacy. See Juvenal, Sat. ii., 65, &c. Publius Syrus, who lived when the fashion was first introduced, has given a humorous satirical description of it in two lines, which by chance have been preserved: -
"AEquum est, induere nuptam ventum textilem?
Palam prostare nudam in nebula linea?"
