1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Wisdom 13:14 | Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermilion, and painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it: | Vermilion. The ancients greatly esteemed this colour, (Calmet) and painted with it the statues of their gods on festival days, and the bodies of those who had the honour of a triumph. (Pliny, [Natural History?] 33:6.) |