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THEY wear also linen tunics which scarcely reach to the elbows, and
for the rest leave their hands bare, that the cutting off of the sleeves
may suggest that they have cut off all the deeds and works of this world,
and the garment of linen teach that they are dead to all earthly
conversation, and that hereby they may hear the Apostle saying day by day
to them: "Mortify your members which are upon the earth;" their very dress
also declaring this: "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God;" and again: "And I live, yet now not I but Christ liveth in me. To me
indeed the world is crucified, and I to the world."
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