An Affection for a Cloak
2 Timothy 4:13
The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring with you, and the books, but especially the parchments.


Newman tells us (in 1840) how he kept an old blue cloak which he got in 1823, and "had an affection for it," because it had "nursed me through all my illness. I have it still. I have brought it up here to Littlemore, and on some cold nights I have had it on my bed. I have so few things to sympathise with me that I take to cloaks."



Parallel Verses
KJV: The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

WEB: Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.




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