[Milton-L] Re: the wings again

[ms493101 at ohio.edu]

Not to "skirt" the issue, but the skirtishness of God's apparel emerges in 
Renaissance Bible translations.

For example, the Geneva Bible renders Isaiah 6.1: "“In the year of the death of 
King Uzziah, I saw also the Lord sitting upon an high throne, and lifted up, 
and the lower parts thereof filled the Temple” (Isaiah 6.1). Geneva marginalia 
note on "lower parts": “Of his garment, or of his throne.” 
Interestingly, the Bishop's Bible, the Authorized Version, and Douay-Rheims 
insert "and his train." 

Best,
Matthew Stallard


Quoting Rose Williams <rwill627 at suddenlink.net>:

> It has also been suggested that the 'wings' are the ends of Christ's
> Jewish 
> prayer shawl.
> 
> Rose Williams
> 
> > This also explains how God got skirts at Paradise Lost 3.379.  My
> note
> > (sorry to quote again) says "Here the skirts of His brightness
> appear to
> > be a kind of penumbra or glow surrounding His form."  The word
> "skirts"
> > is biblical, in this case.
> >
> > Roy Flannagan
> Matthew Henry explains that beams are the wings of the
> > sun,
> > and also notes that wings can be read ("as some have it") as
> skirts,
> > so
> > linking the healing in the wings to the woman who was healed by
> > touching
> > the hem of Christ's garment. 
> 
> 
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