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AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)
Chapter 1
Section V SYMBOLIC VISION OF THE SPIRIT-NAME
Subsection 8
His Head and the Hairs.
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John says that the head and the hairs of the similitude he saw were "white, as it were wool, white as snow." This appearance identifies it with Daniel's "Ancient of Days," the hair of whose head was "like the pure wool." Now, in regard to the head, Paul says, "I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God" (1 Cor. 11:3); and in Eph. 5:23, he says, "the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the Ecclesia; and He is the Saviour of the Body". The apocalyptic Son of man is the body, and Jesus Anointed occupies the position of Head to that body. This is the reason why the head is represented as invested with the appearance of wool, white as snow. The whiteness represents the purity of the head, and the wool that head's relation to "the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world"; and primarily the sin of those who constitute the community represented by the Son of man, of whom it may be said, that they had washed them in the blood of the Lamb, and made them clean; and that "though their sins were as scarlet they had become white as snow; and though they were red like crimson they had become as wool" (Isai. 1:16,18). Thus the snow-white wool becomes the emblem of the purity of the whole body in Christ when "presented to himself a glorious ecclesia, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but holy and without blemish" (Eph. 5:27).