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3. They put upon him a Purple Robe, or a Scarlet Robe. John calls it Purple, ¹and Matthew Scarlet; howsoever some difference may be, yet because of their likeness, they are put sometimes one for another, They put upon him a Scarlet robe, it is in the Original a Scarlet Cloa•• it was a loose short garment, at first used only by Kings or Emperors,² and the colour of it was suitable to Christ's condition, for he was now purple all over, as well within it, as without it; his body and his garment were both of a deep dyed sanguine colour. Some out of Zechariah, ³where it is said that Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, conclude the old, ragged, thread-bare filthiness of his robe; so that every thing shall have its office and several share in his abuse; the colour and the manner of the garment flouts his Kingdom; the bareness, his outward estimation with the people; the raggedness, his late scattered retinue; the fulledness, his stained, spotted life, as they pretended, saying, He was a Friend of Publicans and Sinners—but out of this darkness the Lord can bring light, he hath his mysteries wrapped up in the malice of his enemies; for both on his garment, and on his thigh was written a mystery; and in this sense,⁴ what other is his garment but the emblem of his humanity? and what is his scarlet garment, but the emblem of his wounded body? that as he spake of the woman, She anointed him aforehand unto his burial; ⁵so Pilate in the mystery clothes him aforehand unto his bloody death.

3. They put upon him a Purple Robe, or a Scarlet Robe. John calls it Purple, ¹and Matthew Scarlet; howsoever some difference may be, yet because of their likeness, they are put sometimes one for another, They put upon him a Scarlet robe, it is in the Original a Scarlet Cloa•• it was a loose short garment, at first used only by Kings or Emperors,