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often overtopping it and illuminating the broad fields with their various shades of pinkish
purple to deep violet purple and blue.… Anyone who has stood among the wheat fields of
Galilee … will see at once the appropriateness of our Savior’s allusion. They all have a
reedy stem, which, when dry, would make such fuel as is used in the ovens. The beautiful
irises … have gorgeous flowers, and would suit our Savior’s comparison even better than
the above. But they are plants of pasture grounds and swamps, and seldom found in grain
fields. If, however, we understand by ‘lilies of the field’ simply wild lilies, these would
also be included in the expression. Our Savior’s comparison would then be like a
‘composite photograph,’ a reference to all the splendid colors and beautiful shapes of the
numerous wild plants comprehended under the name ‘lily’” (G. E. Post, in
B
0 !
4 !
).
For
LIMIT,
in
Heb. 4:7
,
KJV
, see
DEFINE
For
LINE
see
PROVINCE
, No. 2
For
LINEAGE
in
Luke 2:4
,
KJV
, see
FAMILY
LINEN, LINEN CLOTH, FINE LINEN
1.
(
0
, 4616) was “a fine linen cloth, an article of domestic manufacture”
(Prov. 31:24) used (a) as a garment or wrap, the “linen cloth” of Mark 14:51, 52; (b) as
shrouds or winding sheets, Matt. 27:59; Mark 15:46,
RV
, “linen cloth,” for
KJV
, “linen”;
Luke 23:53 (ditto).¶ In the Sept., Judg. 14:2, “(thirty) sheets”; Prov. 31:24 (see above).¶
The Mishna (the great collection of legal decisions by the ancient Rabbis) records that the
material was sometimes used for curtains.
2.
(
&
, 3043) denotes (a) “flax,” Matt. 12:20; (b) “linen,” in Rev. 15:6,
KJV
;
the best texts have
, “stone,”
RV
. See
FLAX
.
3.
(
A
, 3608), “a piece of fine linen,” is used in the plural, of the strips
of cloth with which the body of the Lord was bound, after being wrapped in the
,
Luke 24:12; John 19:40; 20:5, 6, 7.¶ In the Sept., Judg. 14:13, “changes of raiment”; Hos.
2:5, 9.¶ The word is a diminutive of
, “a sheet” (see
SHEET
).
4.
$
(
"
, 1040), “fine linen,” made from a special species of flax, a word of
Aramean origin, used especially for the Syrian
$
(Arab.
$
is still used for native
“linen”). Cf. Heb.
$
, in all OT passages quoted here, except Ezek. 27:7; Syriac
$
In
Luke 16:9. It is the material mentioned in 1 Chron. 4:21, wrought by the house of
Ashbea; 15:27,
$
, No. 5 (David’s robe); 2 Chron. 3:14,
$
(the veil of the
Temple); 5:12,
$
(the clothing of the Levite singers); Esth. 1:6 (the cords of the
hangings in the king’s garden); 8:15 (Mordecai’s dress); Ezek. 27:7 (
$
, in Syrian
trade with Tyre). In the NT, Luke 16:19, the clothing of the “rich man.”¶
5.
$
(
"
, 1039), an adjective formed from No. 4, denoting “made of fine
linen.” This is used of the clothing of the mystic Babylon, Rev. 18:12; 16, and of the
suitable attire of the Lamb’s wife, 19:8, 14, figuratively describing “the righteous acts of