METAFORA ÎMBRĂCĂMINTEI ÎN EPISTOLELE PAULINE
THE METAPHOR OF CLOTHING IN THE PAULINE EPISTLES

Summary/Abstract: Clothing is mentioned in the Holy Scripture from the very beginning, when Adam realizes that he is naked and feels ashamed before the Lord. Once the natural connection between man and Creator is lost, the one who did not listen will be clothed. His nakedness will be covered, not with heavenly glory, but with garments of skin, a garment meant to allow him to traverse the time and place he is in until death. From here until the coming of the New Adam, who clothed himself in the garment of sin and washed it in the waters of the Jordan through Baptism, the journey is full of ups and downs, teachings, promises, punishments, and wanderings. The people of Israel, clothed in the physical garment, no longer find their way until the Savior comes and gives them and the nations the chance to be clothed again in the garment of glory that Adam lost. People have the opportunity to fill the lost Paradise again. In this sense, Saint Paul encourages the first Christians to clothe themselves, to take another garment, to cover themselves with the glory of the Lord, who gave His life for us, thus overcoming the original sin

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