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6, I, Xvi. 5, 2, etc. See Herm. Vis. I. 3, 2, Sim. ix. 24, 4, Clem. Rom. xlv. 8, etc. p Reminisc. of syn., Matt. xii. 32, Lk, xii. 8.
Xvii. 8, XxX. 12, 15, Xxi. 27, En. cviii. 2.
(Ixii. 15, 16, the elect clothed after the resurrection in eternal ‘‘ garments of glory”) down to Slav. En. xxii. 8; 4 Esd. ii. 39, 45 (cf. Herm. Sim. viii. 2) and Asc. Isa. iv. 16 (garments = spiritual bodies in which the saints are vested at the last day, stored up in seventh heaven ; cf. viii. 26, ix. 24 f., uidi stolas multas et thronos et coronas jacentes). περιβαλεῖται κ.τ.λ.» like Joshua (Zech. iii. 3 f.) ; or (as others suggest) like priests acquitted be- fore the Sanhedrin, who were robed in white. In the Apoc., as in En. Ixxxv.- χο., white is the colour of righteousness, associated with innocence (and joy? Eccles. ix. 8), just as black with evil. In Apoc. Pet. 5, the dwellers in Paradise are clothed in év8upa ἀγγέλων φωτινῶν, whilst the angels who (ver. 6) chastise the wicked are robed in black. All such metaphors reflect the primitive notion that clothing somehow could form almost a part of a man’s personality, correspond- ing to his identity and character (E. Bi. 1140, 1ΙΤ41), rather than the Roman custom of assuming a white toga uirilis to mark entrance upon manhood’s privi- leges (“uitae liberioris iter,’ Ovid).— τῆς βίβλου τῆς ἵωῆς, this favourite symbol of the Apocalypse whith goes back even to pre-exilic Judaism (Isa. iv. Sy ο Εκοα σε 35 Εν πείοι. tor the Babylonian background, cf. Jeremias, 69 f.), had through the influence of Dan. {xii. I) a great vogue in apocalyptic dreams as an apt image no longer of a share in the temporal felicity of God’s reign but of personal salvation. For a name to be erased from the book of life {one’s deeds not corresponding, upon scrutiny, to one’s position; cf. xx. 12, Jub. xxxvi. 10) meant condemnation, or exclusion from the heavenly kingdom. To have one’s name retained (‘‘ and never will I blot out,” etc.) on the list of heavenly citizens was by this time a current metaphor for eternal fellowship ~with God and his people, and (by a