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The comparison of Christ’s body to royal purple (1)

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08 Administrative systems
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs


 		Keywords
garments
Period
5th century CE
Byzantine Empire 		Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Philoxenus of Mabbog, De Uno e Sancta Trinitate Incorporato et Passo 1.55, (PO 15) 464:
Just as a king puts on purple clothes which remain in their own hypostasis, outside the hypostasis of the king, so did God put on the different hypostasis of a man who served him as his purple robes.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Philoxenus of Mabbog, De Uno e Sancta Trinitate Incorporato et Passo 1.55, (PO 15) 464

Bibliography

Brock 1992, XI 18Brock, Sebastian. Studies in Syriac Christianity, History, Literature and Theology. London: Variorum Reprints 1992.

Amar Annus


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