1 Corinthians 11:14

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Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him?

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

One act is becoming to a man, another to a woman… How unsightly it is for a man to act like a woman! Letter

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

This is in line with Leviticus [:], which prohibits a man from having long hair. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

What is the reason, I wonder, why men wear their hair long contrary to the precept of the apostle? Is it to furnish greater leisure to the barbers? Or is it because they wish to imitate the birds of the gospel? Maybe they fear being plucked so that they might be unable to fly? I refrain from saying more concerning this habit, because of certain longhaired brothers whom, in almost all other respects, we hold in high esteem. But in proportion as we love them the more in Christ, to that degree do we advise them the more earnestly.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

The Word prohibits us from doing violence to nature

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Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637

Doth not even nature itself teach you? The Latin Version reads, "Neither doth nature itself teach you," i.e, Nature doth not teach that women should be veiled, but it does teach that if a man grow long hair, it is a disgrace to him; if a woman, it is her glory.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

If you demand a divine law, you have that common one prevailing all over the world, written on the tablets of nature, to which also St. Paul is accustomed to appeal. Thus he says concerning the veiling of women: “Does not nature teach you this?” Again, in saying in his letter to the Romans that the Gentiles do by nature what the law prescribes, he hints at the existence of natural law and a nature founded on law.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

By naming the sex generally, mingled "daughters "and species together in the genus. Again, while he says that "nature herself". , because hair serves for a covering. If Scripture is uncertain, Nature is manifest; and concerning Nature's testimony Scripture cannot be uncertain.

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