圣经中紫色意味着什么：它意味着金钱

Purple in the Bible means money. Not royalty first, not spirituality — money, because of how the dye was made. Once we know the production process, several passages sharpen considerably. Why purple cost so much Tyrian purple came from sea snails of the murex family, harvested along the Phoenician coast. Each snail yields a minute quantity of a secretion that turns purple on exposure to light and air. Ancient writers describe thousands of snails going into a small amount of…