“... The following words are echoed by Clement of Rome when he exhorts his readers to be imitators of those who 'went about in sheepskins and goatskins', announcing the advent of Christ; he refers, he says, to the prophets Elijah and Elisha, and also Ezekiel (I Clem. 17:1). Elijah, we know, wore "a garment of hair . . . and a girdle of leather about his loins" (II Kings 1:8, RSV); and in the Ascension of Isaiah those who accompanied Isaiah to his wilderness retreat "were all clothed in garments of hair" (Ch. 2:10). But the whole description of those who, roughly clad like this, endured destitution, affliction and ill-treatment as they wandered in desolate places and sought the shelter of caves, reminds us especially of those godly Jews who fled from the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes [...] ...”