And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
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Jerome
AD 420
So, too, with a mystic reference to the shedding of blood, it was a scarlet cord which the harlot Rahab (a type of the church) hung in her window that she might be saved at the destruction of Jericho.