Preface.

the Hittites. The text continues the biblical metaphor from Ezekiel 16, where the early Church/Jerusalem is compared to an abandoned infant of pagan parentage (Amorites and Hittites). 4. Your birth was as follows; on the day you were born your navel string was not cut, nor were you bathed with water to make you clean, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5. For no one pitied you, so as to have compassion for you or show you any of these kindnesses; but you were thrown out into the open field and so despised, for your life was loathsome on the day you were born. See, such is she in herself/ and therefore the Church confesses not only that she is without ornament/ but also that she is deformed and unclean. Isaiah 64:6. We are all like those who are unclean, and all our righteousness is like a filthy garment: we all wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like a wind. etc. And with the Prophet David Psalm 51:7 In many English Bibles, this is Psalm 51:5.. I was born of sinful seed, and in sin did my mother conceive me. And therefore she prays verse 9 English Psalm 51:7.. Purge me with hyssop that I may be clean: Wash me that I may be snowy white, that is, become beautiful.

But all her beauty has come to her from without/ and was granted by God out of grace according to His Mercy / for when He had beheld her in her former state / He testifies/ Ezekiel 16:6. I passed by you and saw you lying in your blood, and said to you as you lay there in your blood: you shall live. Yea, I said to you as you lay there in your blood: you shall live. 7. And I caused you to increase by the thousands like the growth of the field, thus you were multiplied and grew, and came to the greatest beauty. Although you were naked and very bare. etc. 9. And I bathed you with water and washed your blood from you, and anointed you with balsam. 10. And clothed you with embroidered garments, and put fine leather shoes zeemen schoenen: shoes made of chamois or soft treated leather on you, etc.

And that is also what is testified. Psalm 45:14 English Psalm 45:13.. She is clothed with pieces of gold, they lead her in embroidered garments to the King. Likewise, pointing to the same, the Bridegroom says/ Song of Solomon 1:11. We will make you gold ornaments, with studs of silver. Also Revelation 12: She is shown to be a Woman clothed with the Sun. By which it is indicated/ that she receives all her glory and radiance/ from the Sun, namely Christ/ who is called the Sun of Righteousness/ Malachi 4:2. Psalm 68. Ephesians 4. For it is He who has adorned and enriched her with gifts / both inward and outward / with inward and outward ornament and beauty: just as this twofold ornament can be gathered from the aforementioned places: the inward is described Psalm 45:14.