The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels;
Of the costly apparel, and of the mantles, And of the coverings, and of the purses,
the festival-robes, and the tunics, and the mantles, and the wallets;
Isaiah — The gospel prophet — a Judean court-prophet across Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (c. 740–700 BC) who sees past Assyria to Babylon and past Babylon to the Messiah. Sixty-six chapters divided into the Book of Judgment (1–39) and the Book of Comfort (40–66), climaxing in the Servant wounded for our transgressions.
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(Verse 22.) And changes, and cloaks, and coverings. As for 'coverings', the Septuagint translated it as 'clear ethereal garments', signifying the very thin garments with which the bodies of the Spartans, who were very ready for war and had a strict way of life, were covered. Although 'ethereal garments' does not have a Hebrew or any other interpreter. However, 'changes' and 'cloaks', which Symmachus translated more significantly as 'anabolaia', are ornaments of women's clothing that cover the shoulders and chest.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420patristic
The changeable suits of apparel,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The articles which are mentioned in the remaining part of this description, are entire articles of apparel; those which had preceded were chiefly single ornaments. The changeable suits of apparel - The word which is used here in the original comes from a verb signifying to pull of as a shoe; to unclothe ones-self; and it here denotes the more costly or valuable garments, which are not worn on common occasions, and which are laid aside in ordinary employments.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
Here begin entire articles of apparel. Those before were single ornaments. changeable--from a root, "to put off"; not worn commonly; put on and off on special occasions. So, dress-clothes (Zec 3:4). mantles--fuller tunics with sleeves, worn over the common one, reaching down to the feet. wimples--that is, mufflers, or hoods.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
(3.) The enumeration of these things intimates what care they were in about them, how much their hearts were upon them, what an exact account they kept of them, how nice and critical they were about them, how insatiable their desire was of them, and how much of their comfort was bound up in them.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
