And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
And they put on Him a purple robe.—See notes on S. Matthew 27:30, also [Pseudo] Athanasius, de Cruce, who says that Christ bore in the purple robe the blood of men (because the devil had polluted the earth with murders), in the thorns their sins, in the reed the hand-writing with which the devil had enrolled us as his own; for all these Christ took away by His Passion. He adds that when Christ took the reed, the devil armed him with a weapon against himself, for the reed is said to be fatal to serpents, and that Christ took the reed to deliver us from the serpent"s subtilty.
