purple and fine linen are used together as the attire of the well-clothed. See Luke 16:19. The purple was obtained from “the juice of a certain species of shell-fish found on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The juice of the entire fish was not used, but only a little of its liquor, called the flower, contained in a white vein, or vessel, in the neck.” Typically, the fine linen and purple picture, as in the tabernacle hangings, practical righteousness and royal glory. In the rich man