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AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)
Chapter 9
Section 1 Subsection 8
Chaplets like to Gold
The use of this tormenting Saracen fire constituted the resemblance
of the Arabs to scorpion-tailed locusts. Besides this, they
had other remarkable "resemblances" in their equipment
for war. They had, as it were, "chaplets like to gold" --
hos stephanoi. This was only an homoioma -- resemblance --
not literal golden circlets. They would be yellow so as to
bear a resemblance to gold. They had a yellow headgear. Ezekiel,
in ch. xxiii. 42, describes the head-dress of the Sabean and
Keturite Arabs by atereth, rendered in Greek by stephanon,
as "Sabeans from the wilderness, who put beautiful stephans
or wreaths upon their heads" -- that is, turbans. It
was a usual saying among them that Allah had bestowed four
peculiar things upon the Arabs; and that one of them was,
that their turbans should be to them instead of diadems. "Make
a point," said their prophet, "of wearing turbans,
because it is the way of angels."