Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Thy cloak - thy coat - In Matthew 5:40, I have said that Coat, , signifies under garment, or strait coat; and Cloak, ̔ , means upper garment, or great coat. This interpretation is confirmed by the following observations of Bishop Pearce. The was a tunica , or vestcoat, over which the Jews and other nations threw an outer coat, or gown, called a cloak, Matthew 5:40, (which is meant by ̔ ), when they went abroad, or were not at work. Hence the common people at Rome, who did not usually wear, or had no right to wear, the toga, are called by Horace tunicatus popellus , Epist. i. 7, 65. This account of the difference between the and the ̔ appears plainly from what Maximus Tyrius says, The inner garment which is over the body they call , and the outer one the ̔ . And so Plutarch, (in Nupt. p. 139, ed. Fran. 1620), speaking of a man who felt the heat of the sun too much for him, says that he put off, , ͅ ̓ͅ , his vestcoat also with his cloak.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Luke 6:29:
Matthew 5:40
John 19:23
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