“The soldiers, then, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments” the executioner's perquisite (Apuleius has the comparison “naked as a new-born babe or as the crucified”) and as there were four soldiers, τετράδιον, Acts 12:4, they divided the clothes into four parts. This was the more easily done because the usual dress of a Jew consisted of five parts, the headdress, the shoes, the chiton, the outer garment, and the girdle. The χιτών remained after the four other articles were distributed. They could not divide it into four without spoiling it, and so they cast lots for it. It was seamless, ἄρραφος, unsewed, and woven in one piece from top to bottom.

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