Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:10
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Ezekiel16:10
10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers skin, and I girded thee about with fine linnen, and I covered thee with silk.
So miserably poor was this creature, that she had not clothes to her back, he gave them who married her.
Rich and beautiful, needlework of divers colours much above the state of an abject infant, and suited to the bounty and riches of him who gave them.
Those Eastern people had an art of curiously dressing and colouring the skins of those Beasts, of which they made their neatest festival shoes, and these were for the richest and greatest personages to use.
Both for strength, activity and ornament.
Both soft warm, and comely, such soft raiments used in Kings Courts, intimate the advancement of this abject to Royal state, as well as delicately clothed.
Either covered, as the upper garment covers all the rest, or as curtains of the bed cover one who is laid to rest within them, the vail this Virgin was covered with when she appeared abroad, and her furniture at home were very rich and proportion'd to her Lords grandure and riches.
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