The entire span of Christian salvation history has been described as putting on and taking off clothing before their disobedience, Adam and Eve wore a garment of glory or light.  Expelled from the garden, they wore leaves.  Christ shed his garment of light and took on a body.  In this way all mankind acquired, once again, a garment of glory. 

This image of putting on and taking off clothing as a way to describe the Christian story have been expressed poetically.

All these changes did the Merciful One make,

Stripping off glory and putting on a body;

For he had devised a way to reclothe Adam

in that glory which Adam had stripped off.

Christ came to find Adam who had gone astray,

He came to return him to Eden in the garment of light

Blessed is He who had pity on Adam’s leaves

And sent a robe of glory to cover his naked state.

In Bethlehem did king David put on fine linen.

But David’s Lord and Son

Hid his glory there in His swaddling clothes

These same swaddling clothes

Provided a robe of glory for humankind.

St Ephrem the Syrian, ( 4^th cent.)

In an allusion to Matt. 22  (an invited guest to a wedding party was thrown out because he did not have the right wedding garment, St Ephrem continues,

The immortal Bridegroom shines out in that robe:

Let the guests in their clothing resemble Him in His

Let your bodies – which are your clothing –

Shine out, ---.