Peairtach
Puritan Board Doctor
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? (I Corinthians 11:14)
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Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? (I Corinthians 11:14)
[FONT="]As touching a man’s self, the law of nature teaches him that he should not live as a reasonless creature, but that all his actions should be such as may be congruous and beseeming for a creature endued with reason: Whereupon it follows, that he should live honestly and virtuously, that he should observe order and decency in all his actions, etc. Hence the Apostle says, that nature itself teaches that it is a shame for a man to have long hair (1 Cor. 11:14) because it is repugnant to that decency and comeliness which the law of nature requires. For, among other differences which nature has put between men and women, this is one, that it has given to women thicker and longer hair than to men, that it might be as a veil, to adorn and cover them.[FONT="][1][/FONT] The reason whereof, nature has hid in the complexion of a woman, which is more humid than the complexion of a man. So that, if a man should take him to this womanish ornament, he should but against nature transform himself (in so far) into a woman.[/FONT]
[FONT="][1][/FONT]Paraeus, Com. in illum locum. [Cf. Ad Corinthios priorem (1609) col. 699.]
How long is long is probably the question.
How long is long is probably the question.
Indeed! For instance, I look at most guys - men who by society's standards have short hair - and I look at them like they're unkempt hippies. Hair should not touch the top of the ear, the collar of your shirt, and it should have a nice tapered appearance. Anything else is long.
So these guys didn't think they had long hair, because the women of the day had longer hair?
A pastor told me that short hair on men did not come into fashion till the early 1900
(1Co 11:16) But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
Ruben is the Godly one of the bunch.
GI Barber has the best sermon I have every heard on the subject. He recieved his PhD. in hairology. He did a detailed study on every passage in the Bible regarding hair:
http://www.sharperiron.org/downloads/Podcasts/hairology.mp3
Ruben is the Godly one of the bunch.
Is that because he has the shortest hair?
Alexander Henderson, a contemporary but twice the age of Gillespe, had short cropped hair. At least according to Van Dyke.
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Alexander Henderson, a contemporary but twice the age of Gillespe, had short cropped hair. At least according to Van Dyke.
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Yes. I was just wondering - out of interest - how those with hair that we might consider long e.g. Samuel Rutherford, George Gillespie, John Owen, Matthew Henry, etc. accomodated themselves to this verse. Presumably they didn't believe that the Apostle's injunction was cultural, but they considered their hair to be relatively short compared to women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in their locales.
You might see the wiki aritcle I linked to
I'm still waiting for Marrow Man to show up. Did he have a fitting for a new wig today? Such lovely powdered tresses.
I'm still waiting for Marrow Man to show up. Did he have a fitting for a new wig today? Such lovely powdered tresses.
While visiting his church this past Lord's day, I discovered to my shock and grief that he does not wear a powdered wig in the pulpit.
GI Barber has the best sermon I have every heard on the subject. He recieved his PhD. in hairology. He did a detailed study on every passage in the Bible regarding hair:
http://www.sharperiron.org/downloads/Podcasts/hairology.mp3