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Scarlet

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Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow (Isa. i. 18). The allusion is to the scarlet fillet tied round the head of the scapegoat. Though your sins be as scarlet as the fillet on the head of the goat to which the high priest has transferred the sins of the whole nation, yet shall they be forgiven and wiped out.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Scandinavia
Scant-of-grace (A)
Scantling
Scapegoat
Scaphism
Scapin
Scaramouch
Scarborough Dress (A)
Scarborough Warning
Scarlet
Scarlet (Will)
Scarlet Coat
Scarlet Woman
Scavenger’s Daughter
Sceatta
Scene Painters
Scene Plot
Scent
Sceptic (Greek)
Sceptre

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