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Gal 3:27. Χριστὸν ἐνδύσασθε, ye have put on Christ) Christ is to you the toga virilis.[32] You are no longer estimated by what you were, you are all alike in Christ and of Christ; see the following verses [Gal 3:28, There is neither Jew nor Greek, etc., for ye are all one in Christ]. Christ is the Son of God, and ye are in Him the sons of God. Tho. Gataker says, if a person were to ask me to define a Christian, I would give him no definition more readily than this: A Christian is one, who has put on Christ: l. 1, misc. c. 9.
[32] Among the Romans, when a youth arrived at manhood, he assumed the dress of a full-grown man, which was called toga virilis.-TR.