SHOES AND SANDALS. Exod. iii, 5. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exod. xii, 11. And thus shall ye eat it, with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet.....

Deut. xxix, 5. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

Deut. xxxiii, 25. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Josh. v, 15. And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place wheron thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.

Josh. ix, 13...... These our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

VAIL, A LARGE AND SPECIAL PART OF FEMALE DRESS.

Gen. xxiv, 65. For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she tooks vail, and covered herself.

Gen. xxxviil, 14. And she pat her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a val and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath: for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not givet unto him to wife.

Ruth ill, 15. Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon the and hold it. And when she hel it, he measured six measures o barley, and laid it on her, and she went into the city.

Cant. v, 7. The keepers of the walls took away my from me.

VARIOUS CLASSES OF SOCIETY DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR DRESS. Cant. v, 14. His hands are a gold rings set with the bery; hi belly is as bright ivory overlai with sapphires.

Dan. v, 29. Then commande Belshazzar, and they clothe Daniel with scarlet, and put! chain of gold about his neck, an made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the thir ruler in the kingdom.

Ezek. xxiii, 42. And a voice of a multitude being at ease 100 with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought S beans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

James ii, 2, 3. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have re spect to him that weareth the gay thou here in a good place, and say clothing, and say unto him, sit to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool.

DRESS, ORNAMENT, AND PERFUME, ESPECIALLY Or FEMALES.

and said, Whose daughter at Gen. xxiv, 47. And I asked her thou? And she said, The dang ter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, who Milcah bare unto him: and I pu the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

said unto them, I would desi Judges viii, 24-26. And Gideon a request of you, that ye wouri

se every man the earrings Isa. Ixi, 10. I will greaty rejoice prey: (for they had golden in the LORD, my soul shall be joybecause they were Ish-ful in my God; for he hath clothed And they answered, me with the garments of salvawillingly give them. And tion, he hath covered me with the pread a garment, and did robe of righteousness, as a brideerein every man the ear- groom decketh himself with ornaThis prey. And the weight ments, and as a bride adorneth olden earrings that he re- herself with her jewels. i was a thousand and seven A shekels of gold, beside ats, and collars, and purple that was on the kings of and beside the chains that out their camels' necks.

Jer. xiii, 11. For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah, saith the

LORD.....

8.13, 14. All thy garments Jer. iv, 30. And when thou art nyrrh, and aloes, and cas- spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though of the ivory palaces where- thou clothest thyself with crimson, tave made thee glad. though thou deckest thee with or's daughter is all glorious naments of gold, though thou renther clothing is of wrought est thy face with painting, in vain he shall be brought unto shalt thou make thyself fair; thy g in raiment of needle-lovers will despise thee, they will e virgins her companions seek thy life. her shall be brought

, 21, 25. She is not the snow for her housetall her household are with scarlet. Strength and

her clothing, and she ice in time to come.

10. 11. Thy cheeks are rows of jewels, thy chains of gold. We the borders of gold, sof silver.

1. How beautiful are with shoes, O prince's The joints of thy thighs jewels, the work of the 1 cunning workman.

16-24. Moreover the Because the daughters are haughty, and walk

bed forth necks and Je, walking and mindry go, and making a with their feet: ThereLord will smite with a Town of the head of the of Zion, and the Lord ver their secret parts. ay the Lord will take bravery of their tinkling

about their feet, and , and their round tires 200. The chains, and lets, and the mufflers. ets, and the ornaments s, and the head-bands, lets, and the earrings, and nose jewels, The e suits of apparel, and , and the wimples, and bg-pins. The glasses,

linen, and the hoods, ails. And it shall come of instead of sweet smell ibe stink; and instead of arent; and instead of

air baldness; and instead acher a girding of sack4 barning instead of

Ezek. xvi,11,12. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

Matt. xxvi, 7. There came unto him a woman having an alabasterbox of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

Rev. xviii, 16. And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

DRESS AND ORNAMENT PUT OFF IN TOKEN OF SORROW

AND MOURNING.

Exod. xxxiii, 6. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

Ezek. xxiil, 26. They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

CLOTHES RENT IN TOKEN OF MOURNING.

Lev. x, 6. And Moses said unte Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes, lest ye die.

Jer. xxxvi, 24. Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

INSTANCES.

Gen. xxxvii, 29. And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit: and he rent his clothes.

Gen. xliv, 13. Then they rent

their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

whom the plague is, his clothes Lev. xiii, 45. And the leper, in shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon clean, unclean. his upper lip, and shall cry, Un

Num. xiv, 6. And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them their clothes. titat searched the land, rent

1 Sam. iv, 12. And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

2 Sam. i, 11. Then David took

hold on his clothes, and rent them, and likewise all the men that were

with him.

2 Sam. xiii, 30, 31. And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left. Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

2 Kings ii, 12. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

2 Kings xi, 14. And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the king, and all the people of the land princes and the trumpeters by the rejoiced, and blew with trumpets. And Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, treason!

2 Kings xviii, 37. Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

2 Kings xxii, 11. And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

to pass, when the king had heard 2 Chron. xxxiv, 19. And it came the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

sacrifice I arose Ezra ix, 5. And at the evening up from my heaviness; and, having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God.

Isa. xxxvi, 22. Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, to

and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Matth. xxvi, 65. Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Acts xiv, 14. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out.

Acts xvi, 22. And the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat

them.

NOT ONLY WERE CLOTHES RENT, BUT SACKCLOTH WAS ALSO WORN, AND CLOTHES WERE COVERED

WITH DUST.

gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. And in every province, whithersohis decree came, there was great ever the king's commandment and mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

Job xvi, 15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled

my horn in the dust.

Ps. XXXV, 13. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

2 Sam. xv, 32. And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon

his head.

1 Kings xxi, 27. And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

2 Kings vi, 30. And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

2 Kings xix, 1, 2. And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes,and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of

Amoz.

Neh. ix, 1. Now, in the twenty and fourth day of this month, the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

Esther iv, 1-4. When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

Lam. ii, 10. The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Ezek. xxvli, 30. And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes.

Mical i, 10. Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

garments.

Ps. cli, 26. They shall perishj thou shalt endure; yea, all ofth shall wax old like a garment: and they shall be changed. vesture shalt thou change th

Zech. iii, 4. And he answe and spake unto those that s before him, saying, Take a the fithy garments from And unto him he said, Behol have caused thine iniquity top from thee, and I will clothe with change of raiment.

OF NECESSITY OFTEN
WASHED.

Exod. xix, 10, 14. And the Le said unto Moses, Go unto the p ple, and sanctify them to-day a to-morrow, and let them w

their clothes. And Moses we down from the mount unto t people, and sanctified the peop and they washed their clothes.

Lev. xiii, 6. And the priests look on him again the SVL day: and, behold, if the plagu somewhat dark, and the pla spread not in the skin, the pr shall pronounce him clean: f but a scab; and he shall wash

clothes, and be clean.

Lev. xv, 5,8,11, 22. And whosDƏT: toucheth his bed shall wash ! clothes, and bathe himself water, and be unclean until t

And if he that hath the issue tpon him that is clean; then shall wash his clothes, and bebimself in water, and be Wan until the even. And over he toucheth that 1 the issue, and hath not

ed his bands in water, he shall bis clothes, and bathe him in water, and be unclean I the even. And whosoever bh any thing that she sat 1 thall wash his clothes, and elf in water, and be patil the even.

. 26, 28. And he that let rat for the scape-goat 1 is clothes, and bathe thea water, and afterward Wo the camp. And he that them shall wash his

clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

Num. viii, 7, 21. And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their clothes, and so make themtheir flesh, and let them wash

gathereth the ashes of the helfer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

Num. xxxi, 24. And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

EATEN.

selves clean. And the Levites OFTEN LAID UP AND MOTHwere purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

Num, xix, 7, 10. Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. And he that 163

thing consumeth, as a garment Job xiii, 28. And he, as a rotten that is moth-eaten.

up silver as the dust, and prepare Job xxvii, 16. Though he heap

raiment as the clay.

James v, 2.

ments are moth-eaten.

Your gar

(See under Animals, MOTH

DISEASE THE TOKEN OF SIN. Deut. xxviii, 21. The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou

guest to possess it.

John vi, 14. Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

OFTEN PAINFUL. Job vii, 3, 4. So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Job xxx, 15, 16, 19. Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind; and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. He bath cast me

into the mire, and I am become

like dust and ashes.

Eccles. v, 17. All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and, wrath with his sickness.

Isa. xxxviii, 9-11. The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Rev. xvi, 10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain.

BUT SENT BY GOD.

Gen. xxxi, 42. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

2 Sam. vil, 14. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

came darkness.

Ps. lxvi, 10. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Ps. lxxxix, 30-33. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my com

their trangression with the rod, mandments; Then will I visit and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

Ps. cxix, 75. I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast af

flicted me.

Eccles. vii, 14. In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Isa. xxi, 4. My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Isa. xxvii, 7, 8. Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Jer. vill, 15. We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble.

Jer. xv, 11. The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy

remnant, verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of affliction.

Jer. xlviii, 16. The calamity Moab is near to come, and his fliction hasteth fast.

you, all ye that pass by? behold, s Lam. 1, 12-14. Is it nothing

see if there be any sorrow h unto my sorrow, which is d unto me, wherewith the Lon afflicted me in the day of his fe anger. From above hath bee fire into my bones, and it preva eth against them: he hath spr a net for my feet; he hath tur me back; he hath made me de late and faint all the day. T yoke of my transgressions is bo by his hand; they are wreath and come up upon my neck LORD hath delivered me into hath made my strength to fal,

hands, from whom I am not a

to rise up.

Lam. iii, 1,2,31-33. I am the that hath seen affliction by the of his wrath. He hath led and brought me into darks but not into light. For the L

will not cast off for ever:

have compassion according to though he cause grief, yet will multitude of his mercies. Fur grieve the children of men. doth not afflict willingly,

COMFORT AND HOPE UND

AFFLICTION.

Deut. vili, 5. Thou shalt a consider in thine heart, that, a man chasteneth his son, *

LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

2 Sam. xxii, 17, 19. He sent fr above, he took me; he drew out of many waters; They vented me in the day of my lamity: but the LORD was my s

Job v, 11, 17. To set up on those that be low; that those W mourn may be exalted to s Behold, happy is the man wh God correcteth; therefore de not thou the chastening of the mighty.

Job xi, 16. Because thon forget thy misery, and reme it as waters that pass away.

Job xxxiv, 31, 32. Surely f meet to be said unto God, I L borne chastisement, I will not fend any more: That which! not, teach thou me; if I have d iniquity, I will do no more.

Ps. xxxiv, 19. Many are the flictions of the righteous; ba LORD delivereth lilin out of th

all.