The girdle of the ephod

This was made of "gold, blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen." These articles represented principles afterwards to be incarnated in the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedec.

Aaron wore the representations upon his person; Jesus bore them in himself.

The gold represents the wisdom of a tried and precious faith; blue, a cleansing principle; purple, the element of flesh; scarlet, the sin thereof; and fine, twined linen, righteousness. These principles were embodied in Jesus, as

"holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners,"

as to character; yet "the likeness of sin's flesh, in whom sin was condemned" when crucified, as to nature; and the purifier unto righteousness of those who become the righteousness of the Deity in and through him.

The gold and fine twined linen were embroidered through all the blue, purple, and scarlet, of this "curious" breastband with which the breasts were girded; so in the case of Jesus, though "made sin for us, he knew no sin,"

"yet was he tempted in all points like as we are, but without transgression";

wisdom and righteousness were intertwined in all his words and actions, according to the type. Thus "the body or substance is of Christ" (Exod. 28:2-21; Rom. 8:3; 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 2:14; 4:15; Col. 2:17; 1 Pet. 2:24).

But when Jesus and his Brethren shall all have attained to the divine nature, even as Jesus hath already, the gold and the linen of the girdle will alone remain. The blue, the purple, and the scarlet, make no part of the garments for glory and for beauty of the Son of man, as beheld by John, because what John saw pertains not to the sufferings, but to the glory of the Christ, or Anointed Body.

Eureka 1.5.7.

Note: The blue purple and scarlet represent Deity manifest in the flesh the suffering servant. Deity manifest in spirit is not represented by these colours. Purple cannot therefore represent royalty as is commonly believed among Christadelphians following on from what Bro Roberts wrote. Yes, Yahoshua is King of Kings but that is a separate matter. Purple has been used by gentile royalty but that is not relevant to the spirit's prophetic teaching involved in the high priest garments.