2. Gr. zone, properly a girdle
(Matthew 10:9; Mark 6:8) a money-belt. As to
our Lord's sending forth his disciples without money in their
purses, the remark has been made that in this "there was no
departure from the simple manners of the country. At this day
the farmer sets out on excursions quite as extensive without a
para in his purse; and a modern Moslem prophet of Tarshisha thus
sends forth his apostles over this identical region. No
traveller in the East would hestitate to throw himself on the
hospitality of any village." Thomson's Land and the Book.
