clothe oneself in the Lord Jesus Christ

ἐνδύω fut. ἐνδύσω LXX; 1 aor. ἐνέδυσα, pf. ptc. ἐνδεδυκώς LXX; plpf. inf. ἐνδεδύκειν LXX. Mid.: fut. ἐνδύσομαι LXX; 1 aor. ἐνεδυσάμην; pf. ptc. ἐνδεδυμένος (δύω ‘get into, put on’; Hom. et al.; pap, LXX; PsSol 11:7; TestJob, Test12Patr, JosAs; ApcMos 20; Philo, Joseph.; Just., A I, 52, 3 [cp. citations below under 2a]).

① act. to put clothing or apparel on someone, dress, clothe τινά someone (Appian, Bell. Civ. 5, 99 §411; PGiss 77, 8; Gen 3:21; Ex 29:5; Num 20:26) ἐνδύσατε αὐτόν dress him Lk 15:22. τινὰ τι put someth. on someone (class.; Diod S 2, 27, 3; Gen 41:42; Ex 40:13; 1 Macc 10:62 al.; Just., A I, 52, 3; Mel., P. 17, 116): Mt 27:28 v.l., 31; ἐνέδυσαν αὐτὸν τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ Mk 15:20; αὐτὸν ἐ. τὸ ἔνδυμα αὐτῶν clothe him w. their clothing Hs 9, 13, 2 (s. ἐνδιδύσκω).

② mid. to put any kind of thing on oneself, clothe oneself in, put on, wear τί someth.

ⓐ lit. (PsSol 11:7; TestJob 39:5; Philo, Somn. 1, 214) Mt 6:25; Lk 12:22; Ox 655, 6f (ASyn. 67, 33; cp. GTh 36); ἱμάτιον Lk 8:27; cp. Hs 9, 13, 8; 9, 15, 1; GJs 2:4. ἱματισμόν Hs 9, 13, 3. δύο χιτῶνας Mk 6:9. ἐσθῆτα βασιλικήν Ac 12:21. σάκκον B 3:2 (cp. Ps 34:13; Jon 3:5; Jos., Ant. 8, 385; 11, 256). τὰ ὅπλα Ro 13:12. τὴν πανοπλίαν put on the whole armor (Jos., Ant. 13, 309) Eph 6:11; cp. vs. 14. θώρακα πίστεως 1 Th 5:8 (cp. Wsd 5:18 [esp. the rdg. of S]; Is 59:17; TestLevi 8:2 ἔνδυσαι τὸ πέταλον τῆς πίστεως; Jos., Ant. 7, 283 θώρακα ἐνδεδυμένος; on this matter s. MDibelius, Hdb. on Eph 6:11; cp. Reader, Polemo p. 366). ἐνδεδυμένος (POxy 285, 11 [c. 50 A.D.] ἐνδεδυμένος χιτῶνα λεινοῦν; 2 Ch 5:12; Da 10:5) clothed ἔνδυμα in a garment (Zeph 1:8) AcPt 5:17; Ox 840, 27f. ἔνδυμα γάμου Mt 22:11. τρίχας καμήλου Mk 1:6. χιτῶνας Hs 9, 2, 4. βύσσινον a fine linen garment Rv 19:14. ποδήρη a long robe 1:13. λίνον καθαρόν 15:6. σύνθεσιν ἱματίων Hs 6, 1, 5; μέλανα 9, 9, 5. ῥάκη ῥυπαρά ApcPt 15:30 (δέρματα προβάτων Just., A I, 16, 13 and D. 35, 3 [for Mt 7:15 ἐν ἐνδύμασι]).—Abs. 2 Cor 5:3 v.l. (for ἐκδυσάμενοι); here it is uncertain whether an obj. is to be supplied, or whether we might transl.: when we have dressed ourselves (cp. Aristot., Anima 1, 3, 407b, 23 ψυχὴν … ἐνδύεσθαι σῶμα; Herm. Wr. 10, 18). ApcPt 6:21. Lit. on γυμνός 1b.

ⓑ metaph., very oft., of the taking on of characteristics, virtues, intentions, etc. (LXX; PGM 11a, 19 πάλιν θεὸς ἐνδύσεται τὸ ἑαυτῆς κάλλος ὅπερ ἐξεδύσατο; Iren. 1, 9, 3 [Harv. I 85, 1] τὸν σωτῆρα ἐνδύσασθαι σῶμα ψυχικόν [heretical teaching]). Esp. in the usage of Hermas, upon which the use of Lat. ‘induere’ in the same sense has prob. had its infl. (exx. in Wetstein on Lk 24:49). The mid. sense is not always clearly right; the pass. is somet. better. ἀφθαρσίαν 1 Cor 15:53f (cited in Ath., R. 71, 16). ἐξ ὕψους δύναμιν be clothed w. power fr. above Lk 24:49; cp. Hs 9, 13, 8 (cp. Ps 92:1). δόξαν ApcPt 3, 7. ἰσχύν (Is 51:9; 52:1; Pr 31:26) Hv 3, 12, 2. σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμοῦ compassion Col 3:12. ἀκακίαν Hs 9, 29, 3. ἀλήθειαν m 11:4. ἀρετήν 1:2; Hs 6, 1, 4. ἀφροσύνην 6, 5, 3. ἐπιθυμίαν m 12, 1, 1; 12, 2, 4. ἱλαρότητα 10, 3, 1 and 4. μακροθυμίαν 5, 2, 8. πίστιν (Philo, Conf. Lingu. 31) v 4, 1, 8; m 9:7; Hs 6, 1, 2. σεμνότητα m 2:4. ὑπερηφανίαν Hs 8, 9, 1. ὁμόνοιαν 1 Cl 30:3. χάριν IPol 1:2. Note the bold figure τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐ. clothe oneself in the Lord Jesus Christ (cp. Dionys. Hal. 11, 5 Ταρκύνιον ἐνδύεσθαι; Ephippus [after 323 B.C.: 126 Fgm. 5 Jac. in Athen. 12, 53, 537e]: Alex. the Great liked to put on the ἱερὰς ἐσθῆτας of the gods, and so became Ammon, Artemis, Hermes, Heracles; Artem. 3, 14 θεοῦ σκευὴν ἔχειν καὶ περικεῖσθαι of the incarnation Mel., P. 66, 468; 100, 767) Ro 13:14; cp. Gal 3:27 (s. Apuleius, Metamorph. 11 and also MDibelius, Die Isisweihe etc., Botschaft u. Geschichte 2, ’56, 30–79). Sim. Hs 9, 24, 2 says τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἐ., which expresses the same idea as τὸν καινὸν ἄνθρωπον put on the new (i.e. spiritual) person Eph 4:24; Col 3:10. For the fig. s. FDölger, ΙΧΘΥΣ I 1910, 116ff; WStraub, D. Bildersprache des Ap. Pls ’37, 24f, 84f.—B. 393. DELG s.v. δύω. M-M. TW.