Bible Dictionary: Marriage: Bridal Ornaments

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Isaiah 49:18
Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, said the LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride does.
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Jeremiah 2:32
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
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Would Indeed that Some Profit Might Come to Myself from this ...
... He takes off the bridal ornaments and clothes her with the colours of bereavement. ...
then, so strangely different are the ills with which marriage supplies the ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter iii would indeed that.htm

St. Ambrose, in Concluding the Second Book, Ascribes any Good ...
... love the Lord thy God." [3249] At bridal feasts we ... adorn the hair at least with some
ornaments of prayer ... the golden supports of the heavenly marriage couch on ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter vi st ambrose in.htm

Match-Making.
... to external beauty alone; but also to the ornaments of an ... too many in this day of
money-making, marriage is but ... for money you have them led to the bridal altar ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxiii match-making.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, "When Jesus had Finished These Sayings ...
... or marks upon her, take away her ornaments; if a ... Marriage would not have been venerable
unless it had borne ... that thou too canst say with the bridal drama and ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xxxvii on the words.htm

Funeral Oration on Meletius .
... How have you been robbed of your ornaments! ... religion, she remained chaste and kept
the marriage vow. ... 2086] , made an attempt upon the immaculate bridal-chamber ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/funeral oration on meletius.htm

Colossians iv. 12, 13
... are counted blest, as many as are in bridal chambers, as ... When [927] then thou makest
a marriage, go not round ... Adorn the bride not with these ornaments that are ...
/.../homily xii colossians iv 12.htm

The Great Furnace for a Great Soul
... The matter of Ai Do's marriage had been under consideration ... In vain were the silver
ornaments and fine clothes ... she was dressed in the scarlet bridal clothes, a ...
/.../cable/the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter xi the great furnace.htm

Letter cxxx. To Demetrias.
... was now close at hand and when a marriage chamber was ... you find a matron to be present
at your bridal? ... her as so many hindrances all her ornaments and worldly ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxxx to demetrias.htm

Ephesians v. 22-24
... he first receives her into the bridal chamber, teach ... and the tissues, and the golden
ornaments, and silver ... Take away from marriage all those shameful, those ...
/.../homily xx ephesians v 22-24.htm

The Nile and Egypt
... of a young girl decked as for her bridal"the "Bride ... the man at the time of marriage
promised obedience ... Both men and women loved ornaments, and covered their ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm