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SARDITE
a temple to TiLrrivi (Tic. An; 45:).
AS regmds the reference to Snrdis in the NT, there is
little allusion ro the soecial circumstance5 of the town.
The thnce-repeated mention of garments may have
been suggested by the staple indirtry. In u: I the
words I thou hart a name that thou livest, and art dead '
throw a light upon the decay of splrituvl life in Saidis
about 100 A.D. (CP U. perhap hap^ a5 a result of undisturbed
mercantile orosoeritv leadine to lururv and
apathy (u.;I.
ID 34 ihe &ra& , whicchhave not &filed
their garments,' may welliemind usof what we hear from
other sources of the voluptuous habits of the Lydians
(cp Herod. lii 179; Erch. Pen. 41 ; Athen. lZir).
W. J. W.
SARDITE ()?lD), Nu. 2626 AV. RV SEREDLTE.
SARDIUS. I. A precious stone 'idem (D/K) occurs
in P ar one of the gems of the high~priertly breastplate
(Ex. 2817 59.0). whence, among others, it is assigned
by an interpolator for the adornment of the king of
Tyre (or Missur?) in Ezek. 28 qt. The EV rendering
' sardius' follows C$ (cdpd~ov); Josephus also, in describing
the sacred breastplate, has sdp810v in BI v. 5r,
but in Ant. iii. 76, onp8bvu$, 'sardonyx.' RVme. gives
'ruby,' but with doubtful justification (see Ram, CAR-
BIIXCLE). rdp8~0~ also occurs in Rev. 21zo, and (so
Ti. WH and RV) in Rev. 43. The Hebrew gem-name
'idem is uruaily derived from DIN, ,to be red' ; if so,
the carnelian may be plausibly identified with the '$den
of the OT. Probably the ancients meant this identihcafion,
though the sardiuj in modern parlance means the
brown chalcedony, the red being om carnelian. The
meaning of the word carnelian is obvious. The vividness
of the red, fierh-like huea determiner the estimation
in which it is held. In ancient times, as in our own
day, this stone is more frequently engraved than any
other. Pliny (HIY37r) speaks of the rardius of Babylon
ar of greater value than that of Sardis. The Hebrews
would naturally obtain the carnelian from AFabia. In
Yemen there is found a very fine dark-ted kind, which
is called ed-'a+i+ (Niebuhr. Berchreib. 14s). The Arabs
wear it on the finger, on the arm above the elbow, and
in front of the kit.
Cp STONES (PRECIOUS). 88
4. 6iIl. 7.
This, ar we have rdd, ir the current identification. When
howcvci, we refer to Ezek. 2716 where among the artlcle:
ruppliedto Tyre (or Mirrur?) Ly Edom (so Cornill, Toy, etc.,
rrad, following @) we find, close together ~,DX, and ,272 (or
perhaps [rse Ruevl,>73,rhe surpicion grows upon ur thrr (ar in
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