The Girdle

‎The wicked are like cast-off moth-eaten garments (50:9: 51:8); but the righteous, when clothed upon with their house which is from heaven (2 Cor. 5.), are like “beautiful garments.” God said by Jeremiah (ch. 13.) that He had caused to cleave unto Him the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, “as a girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man.” But this girdle was marred by the river Euphrates. A conqueror is said to array himself with a conquered land “as a shepherd putteth on a garment” (Jer. 43:12). These figures show how, when the Lord Jesus and the saints return to Zion, and the Jews are regathered from their captivity, and the land wrested from Gog and “the terrible nations,” Zion may be said to have “put on her beautiful garments.”
. Vol. 41: The Christadelphian: p 217.