1 CORINTHIANS 11:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him — Paul appeals to phusis (nature, custom, conventional understanding), which would have been obvious to Corinthian eyes; long hair on men was associated with effeminacy or oriental excess in Greco-Roman culture.
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