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They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
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Verse 37. Μηλον signifies a sheep; μηλωτη signifies a sheep skin, with the wool on it. This, or a goat skin, was the usual covering of poor people, and as such was adopted by the ancient prophets, mortified to all the luxuries of life. Thus Elias is called vir pillosus, a hairy man, not for his beard or hair, but for his shaggy or hairy covering.
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