Adorn
A-dorn’ (Gk: kosmeo) has its primary meaning, “to arrange,” “to put in order,” “to decorate.”
“So are my ways higher than your ways”(Is.55:8-9)
We shall compare the simplicity of Christ required of women in the early church, ‘that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array’;(1 Ti.2: 9; 1 Pe.3: 3) on the other hand we have the bride of Christ, “the holy city, new Jerusalem”. (Re.21:2;19:7)”
How come?
“Marriage of the Lamb is come” is a time for rejoicing. The honour of the bride is in the newness of relationship begun with Christ from betrothal to the marriage supper where the array of precious stones mentioned in Re.21:19-21 is created under the true Light and created in heaven! “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Re.21:2;19:7).” What is most precious in earth is glass catching the rays of the sun and natural eye is deceived.
King Abimelech of Gerar while compensating Sarah for causing distress to her modesty made amendments, “And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee,”(Ge.20: 16)
Abraham as ‘a covering for her eyes’ has an equivalent. “And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”(De.6:8) The Spirit implies Abraham as the double for the Son, the word become flesh. (“I am the Way”).
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