“And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.”
His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them — the description of the garments is both simple and overwhelming: the whiteness exceeds anything human bleaching can produce. The dazzling white is the color of heavenly beings in apocalyptic literature (Daniel 7:9, Revelation 7:9). Mark's characteristic concrete specificity produces the parenthetical whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them — an eyewitness's attempt to communicate something that exceeds available categories by using the closest available comparison and then exceeding it.
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