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Book II — On the Pharisees and the Sadducees

Chapter XV. What Was the Dress of the Pharisees

(printed p. 134 — Book II)

When phylacteries and fringes were discussed, the dress of these men was already indicated in some way. I shall add, however, a little more from Saint Epiphanius, heresy 16, where first he says that they used the costume or habit of the scribes. He had described this in heresy 15 as follows: “Such men wore stoles or cloaks, and dalmatics, or colobia, made with broad marks of purple, so that they were purplish, or bordered with purple.”

Second, Cornarius translates another passage in this way: “They proceeded with small cloaks, other ornaments, and women’s mantles, in broad sandals and with the straps of shoes.” But what if we translate “in the streets,” rather than “in broad sandals,” since something is then added separately about sandals in this way: “in sandals and with the straps of shoes”? On sandals, see Gellius, book 13, chapter 21.

[margin: Pharisees in cloaks. Purple garments. Sandals.]

(printed p. 135)

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Nicolaus Serarius, S.J., “Chapter XV. What Was the Dress of the Pharisees,” in The Three Sects, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/serarius-three-sects/27-chapter-xv-what-was-the-dress-of-the-pharisees/.

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