Msg: 2577 *Conference*
05-26-92 03:29:39
From: MARK PAULSON
To : DREW BLANCHARD
Subj: JOES RGB COAT
I've pulled up many threads on Joseph's enviable "coat of many colors" or as modernists and Liberals would have it "long sleaved" It is probable that the word refers to the cut and style however it is not without reason that the KJV, Latin, and German have varigated color as a primary reading. Philo Judaeus insists on the colors. Two parallel passages of desirable coats probably refer to a similar garment probably with astronomical or cosmological motifs Your basic Astrologers robe: Joshua 7:21 has Achan taking as war spoil "a goodly Babylonish garment" The Song of Deborah has Siser's delay speculatively attributed to dividing the spoil "to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil. Judges 5:20. }iProbably these are all one piece not easily divisible robes either seemless or so cunningly fabricated that it would be a shame to spoil them in the looting!