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Updated: May 10, 2025
'Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. These bearers may either be regarded as a solemn procession of priests carrying the sacrificial vessels; or, as is more probable from the context of the original, as the armour-bearers of the great King. They must be pure who bear His weapons, for these are His righteous love, His loving purity.
That retinue the trumpeters prancing on white horses, with gold lace covers, the pages, the armour-bearers, the treasurers, the huntsmen with the hounds, the falconers with the hawks, winding for miles down the hills, and expanding into the circle of strange and delightful creatures that kings must have about their persons: jesters with heads thrown back and eyes squeezed close, while thinking of some funny jest; dwarfs and negroes, almost as amusing as their camels and giraffes; tame lynxes chained behind the saddle, monkeys perched, jabbering, on the horses' manes all this was much more wonderful in Gentile da Fabriano's opinion than all the wonders of the Church, which grew somehow less wonderful the more implicitly you believed in them.
The word rendered 'vessel' is a wide expression, meaning any kind of equipment, and in other places of the Old Testament the whole phrase rendered here, 'ye that bear the vessels, is translated 'armour-bearers. Such an image would be quite congruous with the context here, in which warlike figures abound.
Nay, sir, we are too newly wed to be parted yet." "Have your will," I said, and together we went down the steps of the throne to the pavement below. Under my breath I said a farewell to Nais. Our armour-bearers met us with weapons, and we stepped into litters, and the slaves took us off hot foot.
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