Poderis

Wisdom xviii. 24. vulgat.PODERIS. This Word is taken from the Greek¹, and properly signifies a Robe hanging down to the Feet; but it is chiefly used to express a Linen Garment, a Surplice, a Shirt. St. Jerome, in his Epistle to Tabiola, says, It was light, and close to the Body; Strictam & corpori adhærentem, eamque similem militum camisiis. The Jewish Priests were cover’d with this Kind of long Surplices, during the Time of their Attendance in the Temple; and this was the proper Habit of their Order. The Author of the Book of Wisdom gives also the Name of Poderis to the Long Robe of the High-Priest, at the Bottom of which were little Bells and Pomegranates; In veste poderis quam habebat, totus erat orbis terrarum. The Septuagint translate the Hebrew Word Ephod, by Poderis, Exod. xxviii. 31. And in Ezekiel ix. 2, 3. they translate the Hebrew Word Bad, by the same Term. Bad, properly signifies a linen Robe. In Exod. xxv. 7. and xxxv. 8. they render the Hebrew Word Coschen in like manner, which signifies the High-Priest’s Breast-plate, Pectoral, or Rational of Judgment; which, surely, was no long Robe: but it was consider’d as making a Part of the long Robe call’d Mehil, which also they translate by Poderis, Exod. xxviii. 4. St. John, in his Rev. i. 13. vulgat.Revelations, says, that Jesus Christ appear’d to him in a Poderis, which was a sacerdotal Habit, commonly call’d, an Albe or Surplice, as Liran says upon this Place.

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