Dragaera

purple robes

Sun Apr 3 20:31:33 PDT 2005

FWIW,  Imperial purple was actually a red--a rare dye that the Tyrians 
extracted from mollusks.

Mia

rone wrote:

>While Googling other stuff, i came across John 19:2,
>
>    The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his
>    head. They clothed him in a purple robe.
>
>There seems to be some dispute over the color of the robe (some say
>scarlet, and my Spanish bible says 'red' in Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
>but it's already been shown to have deficient translations in other
>areas, so it's not trustworthy).  Nonetheless, the idea of Jesus as a
>purple robe wearer on the Paths of the Dead... OK, i'm a blasphemous
>punk, i know.
>
>rone
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