Isaiah 3:18 (WEB)
In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
Fathers and councils · 2
“Now, granting that God did foresee these things; that God permitted them; that Esaias finds fault with no garment of purple, represses no coil, reprobates no crescent-shaped neck ornaments; still let us not, as the Gentiles do, flatter ourselves with thinking that God is merely a Creator, not likewise…” — editor's note: κοσύμβους. Isa. iii. 18 (in LXX.).
Read the whole comment“Similarly against the daughters of Sion does He inveigh by Isaiah, when they were haughty through their pomp and the abundance of their riches, just as in another passage He utters His threats against the proud and noble: “Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth, and down to it shall descend…” — editor's note: Isa. iii. 16–24.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.9.
