Paul And Purple

Ὥσπερ τὰ ἔρια πρὸς παραδοχὴν βαφῆς ἁλουργοῦ μάλα προστύφεται διὰ τὴν τοῦ ἐσθήματος τιμιότητα· οὕτως ὁ μεγαλόφρων Παῦλος τῆς Ἰουδαίκης ἀποτμηθεὶς ἀλογίας, τριημέρῳ προεστύφθη πηρώσει, ἁλουργὶς Θεοῦ γενόμενος, καὶ πάντας ἀνθρώπους γενέσθαι προτρεπόμενος. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολὴ ΤΜϚ´ Κελσῳ Source: Migne PG 78.380d-381a

As wool, for the reception of purple dye, because of the excellence of the vestment, is first strenuously wrung, in the same way the great minded Paul was removed from the irrationality of the Jews by being wrung with blindness for three days, 1 that he be empurpled for God, and exhort all men to be like him. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 346 to Celsus 1 Acts 9.1-9