Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 441
ore significantly, Tre.piTpaxrjXLov, iirLTpaxyXi-ov. Unlikethe linteum, it was of white wool or colored silk; it naturallytook the form of a scarf, and it must originally have been worn,as it is to-day, around the neck and under the chasuble, for itwas properly a neck-cloth. One must remember that… … protect the neck from the cohl, and it appears, too, that a senseof decency, or at least of dignity, prescribed that the neck becovered. A neck-scarf was not an uncommonelement of dressabout the end of the Empire, and from that isderived the ovarium of presbyters and bishops.AVhen the deacons…
Christian antiquities · Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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