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Eureka

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


 
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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."
 

 

 


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