The Blue Scapular Prayer Book

39 in “splendor.” This idea was further developed by St. Paul in his Letter to the Ephesians: “... you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God’s new way in righteousness and holiness of truth” (4:22-24). Finally, in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus in the parable of the wedding banquet speaks of a man who is cast out of the celebration because he is not wearing a wedding garment (see 22:1-14). The above-mentioned quotes show us that terms describing human garments or adornments are used by the Scriptures to express certain spiritual realities. This unity of purpose and meaning represents a special “biblical symbolism.” According to it, and in accounting for the entirety of Divine Revelation, we can venture to say that anyone who accepts Christ and lives by His teachings puts on the vestment of salvation. The Holy Scriptures teach that meeting God required putting on a special garment. The garment was to be clean, without stain, and washed (Ex 19:10-14; Lv 14:9; Nm 19:7), holy (1 Chr 16:29; Ps(s) 96:9), and solemn (Ezra 3:10). In the Book of Revelation, references are made to people, who “have not soiled their garments”