I clothed you also with embroidered work and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 10. Embroidery. Lit. “various colours.” Bible.—But this is the import. Psalms 44:10.—Violet, or dark blue, appropriated to princes.—Linen, or cotton. Exodus 25. Proverbs 31:24. Calmet.—Fine. Lit. “thin.” Hebrew Mesi, ( Bible.) “silken.” Jarchi. Pagn. and so forth Silk was used much later at Rome, ( Calmet.) and was reprobated as not covering the body sufficiently.
Cois tibi penè videre est
Ut nudam. Hor. i. Sat. ii.
Sen. Ben. vii. 9.—Septuagint τριχαπτω, according to Hesyc. and so forth denotes “a silk ribbon for the hair;” ( Calmet.) a robe as delicate as hair, (Saint Jerome) or a transparent veil for the head. Theod.—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.