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74 read also that when He was transfigured on the mount, His face was as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light. While the Lord was on earth He was indeed clothed with natural garments, but these garments signified His righteousness, and those with which He is said now to be clothed are His righteousness. It was because His garments had this meaning that the touching of them healed the diseased; and that the rending and dividing of His garments at His crucifixion represented the rejection by the wicked of His truth and righteousness from themselves. What, then, did Joseph's coat of many colours signify in reference to the Lord, whom Joseph represented? We may here repeat that Joseph's coat was made of many pieces, which the word more strictly means. Yet it is no doubt to be understood that these pieces were of different colours; for the coats or garments worn in those times would not require to be made of many different pieces, unless it had been for the sake of having it composed of different colours. As the Lord's garments signified or represented His righteousness, Joseph's