Mantle and cloak imagery uses outer garments, hems, coverings, and transferred mantles to picture protection, office, prophetic succession, honour, shame, or the covering God gives in righteousness.
Mantle and cloak imagery uses outer garments, hems, coverings, and transferred mantles to picture protection, office, prophetic succession, honour, shame, or the covering God gives in righteousness.
A garment-covering motif in which the mantle or cloak functions as protection, symbolic investiture, shame-covering, prophetic transfer, or theological covering in salvation and righteousness.
These examples show how Mantle, Cloak, and Covering-Garment Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
covered the nakedness of their father
The garment covering contrasts honour with exposed shame.
wrapped his face in his mantle
Elijah covers himself in reverent fear before the LORD.
cast his mantle upon him
Elijahs mantle marks Elishas prophetic calling.
Elijah took his mantle
The mantle is associated with prophetic authority at the Jordan.
took up also the mantle of Elijah
Elisha receives the visible token of prophetic succession.
coverest thyself with light as with a garment
Divine splendour is pictured as a radiant garment.
covered me with the robe of righteousness
Salvation is pictured as being clothed by God.
let him have thy cloak also
The cloak becomes a concrete image for generous non-retaliation.
touched the hem of his garment
The garment hem becomes the contact point for faith seeking mercy.
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh
The polluted garment pictures moral contamination to be hated.
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