1 Corinthians 11:14 (WEB)
Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
Fathers and councils · 12
Jerome
“Avoid men, also, when you see them loaded with chains and wearing their hair long like women, contrary to the apostle’s precept, not to speak of beards like those of goats, black cloaks, and bare feet braving the cold.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Just as if the Apostle were teaching pride when he says, “Every man praying or prophesying with veiled head shameth his head;” and, “A man ought not to veil his head, forsomuch as he is the image and glory of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 14
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Tertullian
“…for so do the nations approach their idols; which practice, of course, were its observance becoming, the apostles, who teach concerning the garb of prayer, would have comprehended in their instructions, unless any think that is was in prayer that Paul had left his cloak with Carpus!” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xi. 3–16.
Read the whole comment“So far, however, as regards the dress of women, the variety of observance compels us—men of no consideration whatever—to treat, presumptuously indeed, after the most holy apostle, except in so far as it will not be presumptuously if we treat the subject in accordance with the apostle.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xi. 1–16; 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“Again, while he says that “nature herself,” which has assigned hair as a tegument and ornament to women, “teaches that veiling is the duty of females,” has not the same tegument and the same honour of the head been assigned also to virgins?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 14.
Read the whole comment“God bids you “be veiled.”” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xi. 2–16; and comp. de Or., c. xxii., and the treatise de Virg. Vel.
Read the whole comment“Chapter IV.—Of the Argument Drawn from 1 Cor. XI. 5–16.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“If, moreover, the apostle further adds the prejudgment of “nature,” that redundancy of locks is an honour to a woman, because hair serves for a covering, of course it is most of all to a virgin that this is a distinction; for their very adornment properly consists in this, that, by being massed together upon the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“If Scripture is uncertain, Nature is manifest; and concerning Nature’s testimony Scripture cannot be uncertain.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xi. 14, above quoted.
Read the whole comment“…engraven on the natural tables to which the apostle too is wont to appeal, as when in respect of the woman’s veil he says, “Does not even Nature teach you?”—as when to the Romans, affirming that the heathen do by nature those things which the law requires, he suggests both natural law and a law-revealing nature.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 14.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And again he says: “If a woman have long hair, it is a glory unto her.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 13, 14.
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Clement of Alexandria
“The Word prohibits us from doing violence to nature by boring the lobes of the ears.” — editor's note: [Natural instinct is St. Paul’s argument (1 Cor. xi. 14, 15); and that it rules for modesty in man as well as women, is finely illustrated by an instructive…
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 16.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 7.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.46.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.46.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 6.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 4.