Here is an interesting Greek textual variant in Revelation 15:6, "and out of the temple came the seven angels who had the seven plagues, dressed in clean bright linen and gird around the chest with golden sashes." Some major manuscripts read "stone" instead of linen, λιθον instead of λινον. The Tyndale House GNT even has a diamond with the λιθον reading.
The "anointed cherub who covers" in Ezekiel 28:13, also known as Satan, was dressed in stones. Oecumenius comments that the lower ranking angels were dressed in linen and the higher angels in stones of increasing value. (Note that Oecumenius says for Romans 13:14, "Put ye on our STONE, Jesus Christ"! So maybe he had a stone-dress obsession.)
The reading λιθον is certainly the more difficult. And the word λινον here is found with rather varying accents and grammatical cases. Furthermore, the other instances of linen in Revelation are the word βυσσινος (18:12,16; 19:8,8,14), and in the gospels, σινδων (Mt 27:59; Mk 14:51,52; 15:46,46; Lk 2:53) and not λινον. The word λινον is used once in the gospels, but for "wick," as in "a smoldering wick he will not snuff out."
λίνον 91 1006 1734 1841 1888txt 2074 2081 2814 vg-cle TR AN HF BG RP SBL TH♦ECM NA28 {B} ‖ λινον P 051 792 syr-ph,h cop-bo arm eth Tyc Prim Andr Areth ‖ λινὸν 93 469 922 1424 2065 2070txt ‖ λῖνον 1611 1778txt 1888com 2070com ‖ λϊνον 1678 ‖ λἴνον or λΐνον 2846 ‖ λινουν 𝔓⁴⁷ 046 1828 it-ar,gig,(h) (Leviticus 6 in LXX) ‖ λινους ℵ lat-C ‖ λινου 2329 ‖ λιθον A C 1778mg* 2053 2062 2080 vg-am,fu,demid,tol,lipss Rheims syr-h-mg slav-b ps-Ambr Andr Oec Bede WH TH♦ ‖ neither cop-sa eth Cass ‖ lac 𝔓¹¹⁵ 2050 2351.
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