the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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1 Corinthians 11:14
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Even nature itself teaches you that wearing long hair is shameful for a man.
Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degrading to him,
Or els doth not nature teach you that it is a shame for a man
Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
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Does even nature itself not teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
Even nature itself teaches you that wearing long hair is shameful for a man.
Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame to him?
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man hath long hair, it is a shame to him?
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,
Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
Doth not nature itself teach you, that for a man to have long hair, is a disgrace to him?
Does not Nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him,
Nether the kynde it silf techith vs, for if a man nursche longe heer, it is schenschipe to hym;
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?
Doesn't nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
Isn't it unnatural and disgraceful for men to have long hair?
Does not common sense itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?
Doesn't the nature of things itself teach you that a man who wears his hair long degrades himself?
Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?
14 Does not nature itself teach you, that when a man's hair standeth, [fn] it is a disgrace to him ?
Doth not nature teach you, that in a man, if his hair groweth long, it is a reproach to him?
Doeth not euen nature it selfe teach you, that if a man haue long haire, it is a shame vnto him?
Isn't it obvious that it's disgraceful for a man to have long hair?
Have we not already learned that it is a shame for a man to have long hair?
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is degrading to him,
Doeth not nature it selfe teach you, that if a man haue long heare, it is a shame vnto him?
Does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a disgrace to him?
Doth not, even nature herself, teach you - that, if, a man, have long hair, it is a dishonour to him;
Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?
Doth not nature it selfe teache you, that it is a shame for a man, yf he haue long heere?
Why, nature itself teaches you that long hair on a man is a disgrace,
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a disgrace to him,
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
And does not nature itself teach you that a man, if he wears long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
Or does not nature herself teach you that if a man indeed wears long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?
Or doth not nature teach you, yt it is a shame for a man
does not settled custom show it is a shame for a man to have long hair?
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
Same thing goes for a man. It's obvious a man who prays to God should do things the way God tells him to do it. It's a disgrace if a man prays one way and acts another.
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
if: 2 Samuel 14:26
it is: 1 Corinthians 14:35
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 44:20 - nor suffer Luke 12:57 - General Romans 2:14 - do by 1 Corinthians 6:5 - to your 1 Corinthians 11:4 - having Revelation 9:8 - hair
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Doth not even nature itself teach you,.... By nature is either meant, the law and light of nature, reason in man, common sense, or rather custom, which is second nature; and which, in this case, must be restrained to the Greeks and Jews; for though among the Grecians the men cut their hair, and did not suffer it to grow long, as also did the Jews, yet there were many nations k who did not, even at that time, observe such a rule or custom; but as the Jews and Greeks were the persons chiefly, if not solely, known to the Corinthians, the apostle signifies, that the usages of these people might direct and inform them in this matter:
that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him; he looks unmanly and womanish, and exposes himself to ridicule and contempt.
k Alex. ab. Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 5. c. 18. Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. l. 10. prope finem.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Doth not even nature itself - The word nature (φύσις phusis) denotes evidently that sense of propriety which all men have, and which is expressed in any prevailing or universal custom. That which is universal we say is according to nature. It is such as is demanded by the natural sense of fitness among people. Thus, we may say that nature demands that the sexes should wear different kinds of dress; that nature demands that the female should be modest and retiring; that nature demands that the toils of the chase, of the field, of war - the duties of office, of government and of professional life, should be discharged by people. Such are in general the customs the world over; and if any reason is asked for numerous habits that exist in society, no better answer can be given than that nature, as arranged by God, has demanded it. The word in this place, therefore, does not mean the constitution of the sexes, as Locke, Whitby, and Pierce maintain; nor reason and experience, as Macknight supposes; nor simple use and custom, as Grotius, Rosenmuller, and most recent expositors suppose; but it refers to a deep internal sense of what is proper and right; a sense which is expressed extensively in all nations. showing what that sense is.
No reason can be given, in the nature of things, why the woman should wear long hair and the man not; but the custom prevails extensively everywhere, and nature, in all nations, has prompted to the same course. “Use is second nature;” but the usage in this case is not arbitrary, but is founded in an anterior universal sense of what is proper and right. A few, and only a few, have regarded it as comely for a man to wear his hair long. Aristotle tells us, indeed (Rhet. 1: - see Rosenmuller), that among the Lacedemonians, freemen wore their hair long. In the time of Homer, also, the Greeks were called by him καρηκομόωντες Ἀχαῖοι karēkomoōntes Achaioi, long-haired Greeks; and some of the Asiatic nations adopted the same custom. But the general habit among people has been different. Among the Hebrews, it was regarded as disgraceful to a man to wear his hair long, except he had a vow as a Nazarite, Numbers 6:1-5; Judges 13:5; Judges 16:17; 1 Samuel 1:11. Occasionally, for affectation or singularity, the hair was suffered to grow, as was the case with Absalom 2 Samuel 14:26; but the traditional law of the Jews on the subject was strict. The same rule existed among the Greeks; and it was regarded as disgraceful to wear long hair in the time of Aelian; Hist. lib. 9:c. 14. Eustath. on Hom. 2:v.
It is a shame unto him? - It is improper and disgraceful. It is doing that which almost universal custom has said appropriately belongs to the female sex.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 11:14. Doth not - nature - teach you, that, if a man have long hair — Nature certainly teaches us, by bestowing it, that it is proper for women to have long hair; and it is not so with men. The hair of the male rarely grows like that of a female, unless art is used, and even then it bears but a scanty proportion to the former. Hence it is truly womanish to have long hair, and it is a shame to the man who affects it. In ancient times the people of Achaia, the province in which Corinth stood, and the Greeks in general, were noted for their long hair; and hence called by Homer, in a great variety of places, καρηκομοωντεςαχαιοι, the long-haired Greeks, or Achaeans. Soldiers, in different countries, have been distinguished for their long hair; but whether this can be said to their praise or blame, or whether Homer uses it always as a term of respect, when he applies it to the Greeks, I shall not wait here to inquire. Long hair was certainly not in repute among the Jews. The Nazarites let their hair grow, but it was as a token of humiliation; and it is possible that St. Paul had this in view. There were consequently two reasons why the apostle should condemn this practice: -
1. Because it was a sign of humiliation;
2. Because it was womanish.
After all it is possible that St. Paul may refer to dressed, frizzled and curled hair, which shallow and effeminate men might have affected in that time, as they do in this. Perhaps there is not a sight more ridiculous in the eye of common sense than a high-dressed, curled, cued, and powdered head, with which the operator must have taken considerable pains, and the silly patient lost much time and comfort in submitting to what all but senseless custom must call an indignity and degradation. Hear nature, common sense, and reason, and they will inform you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him.
