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Loins
Open directlyHastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
LOINS. The dress of the Oriental nations being loose, it was necessary, when they were travelling or working, to gird up their garments and fasten them about their loins. See Clothes. Hence the expression is figuratively used, 1 Pet 1:13, to denote a state of mind in which the soul is prepared to work and exert itself under the influence of divine grace.
Scripture references
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
LOINS. The dress of the Oriental nations being loose, it was necessary, when they were travelling or working, to gird up their garments and fasten them about their loins. See Clothes. Hence the expression is figuratively used, 1 Pet 1:13, to denote a state of
mind in which the soul is prepared to work and exert itself under the influence of divine grace.