Joshua 2:18

This line of scarlet thread. Rather, this rope, from קוָה to twist. It is described as made of sewing thread ( הוּט ), because no doubt it was formed of several such threads twisted into a rope. The scarlet ( שָנִי ), or rather crimson, was produced from the dried bodies as well as the eggs of the cochineal insect, called in Arabic, kermes (whence our word crimson, and the German karmesin ) . This line of scarlet thread is regarded by the Fathers generally, and by our own divines, as Bishop Hall and Bishop Wordsworth, as symbolical of the blood of Christ,