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Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
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Verse 4. His garment of camels’ hair, [2] not wrought camlet as some would have it, but made of the skin of a camel, with the hair on it. Thus Elias (4 Kings, 1:8,) is called an hairy man, with a leathern girdle about him.—Locusts, not sea-crabs, as others again expound it; but a sort of flies, or grasshoppers, frequent in hot countries. They are numbered among eatables. Leviticus 11:22. S. Jerom and others mention them as a food of the common people, when dried with smoke and salt. Theophylactus, by the Greek word, understands the tops of trees or buds. Witham.
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